scrupulus

Diminutive from scrūpus (“rough or sharp stone; anxiety”) +‎ -ulus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskruː.pu.lus/, [ˈskruː.pʊ.ɫʊs]

scrūpulus m (genitive scrūpulī); second declension

1. A small sharp or pointed stone.
2. The twenty-fourth part of an ounce.
3. (figuratively) Anxiety, uneasiness, solicitude, difficulty, doubt, scruple.

Second declension.

• (uneasiness): scrūpus

• scrūpulōsus

• English: scruple
• Italian: scrupolo
• Portuguese: escrópulo, escrúpulo
• Russian: скрупул (skrupul)
• Spanish: escrúpulo

• scrupulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scrupulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scrupulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scrupulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to relieve a man of his scruple: scrupulum ex animo alicuius evellere (Rosc. Am. 2. 6)
    
  • one thing still makes me hesitate: unus mihi restat scrupulus (Ter. Andr. 5. 4. 37) (cf. too religio, sect. XI. 2)