escrúpulo

Signification (Anglais)

1. (masculine) scruple (doubt concerning the morality of some action)
2. (masculine) apprehension (uneasy doubt concerning other issues, especially carefulness or pickiness about food)
3. (masculine) care (exactitude or rigor in the performance of some action)
4. (historical, masculine) escrupulo, Spanish scruple (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.2 g)
5. (historical, masculine) English or American scruple (a unit of mass equivalent to about 1.3 g)
6. (historical, masculine) synonym of minuto (¹⁄₆₀ of a degree)

Concepts

scrupule

appréhension

regret

Synonymes

diamante

escrupulo

hielo

🧊

dulce de la piedra

jim

vajra

Traductions

scruple

Skrupel

scrupolo

scrupule

gewetensbezwaar

escrúpulo

gewetensaanval

scupolo

escrúpol

compunction

scrupulus

pedantry

Bedenken haben

punctiliousness

hesitation

Coupé comme

es‧crú‧pu‧lo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/esˈkɾupulo/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Emprunté à latin: scrūpulus

Appartenant à portugais: escrópulo

In summary

Borrowed from Latin scrūpulus (“scruple, nagging doubt, ¹⁄₂₄ uncia”), from scrūpus (“sharp stone, anxiety”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). Cognate with Portuguese escrópulo.