Masculine
escrúpulo
Meaning
- (masculine) scruple (doubt concerning the morality of some action)
- (masculine) apprehension (uneasy doubt concerning other issues, especially carefulness or pickiness about food)
- (masculine) care (exactitude or rigor in the performance of some action)
- (historical, masculine) escrupulo, Spanish scruple (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.2 g)
- (historical, masculine) English or American scruple (a unit of mass equivalent to about 1.3 g)
- (historical, masculine) synonym of minuto (¹⁄₆₀ of a degree)
Concepts
Translations
scrupule
Skrupel
scrupolo
scrupule
escrúpulo
escrúpol
scrupulusHyphenated as
es‧crú‧pu‧lo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/esˈkɾupulo/
Etymology
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.
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