escrúpulo
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin scrūpulus (“scruple, nagging doubt, 1⁄24 uncia”), from scrūpus (“sharp stone, anxiety”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). Doublet of escrópulo.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -upulu
- Hyphenation: es‧crú‧pu‧lo
Noun
[edit]escrúpulo m (plural escrúpulos)
- scruple, a nagging doubt, pang of conscience, or ethical concern
- (historical) Alternative form of escrópulo, a small traditional unit of mass
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin scrūpulus (“scruple, nagging doubt, 1⁄24 uncia”), from scrūpus (“sharp stone, anxiety”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). Cognate with Portuguese escrópulo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]escrúpulo m (plural escrúpulos)
- scruple (doubt concerning the morality of some action)
- apprehension (uneasy doubt concerning other issues, especially carefulness or pickiness about food)
- care (exactitude or rigor in the performance of some action)
- (historical) escrupulo, Spanish scruple (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.2 g)
- (chiefly historical) English or American scruple (a unit of mass equivalent to about 1.3 g)
- (astronomy, geometry, historical) Synonym of minuto (1⁄60 of a degree)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Spanish unit of mass): grano (1⁄24 escrúpulo), tomín (1⁄2 escrúpulo), adarme (1 1⁄2 escrúpulo), ochava (3 escrúpulos), castellano (6 escrúpulo), onza (24 escrúpulo)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “escrúpulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
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- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/upulu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/upulu/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with historical senses
- pt:Units of measure
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/upulo
- Rhymes:Spanish/upulo/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish terms with historical senses
- es:Astronomy
- es:Geometry
- es:Units of measure