escrúpulo.
scruple (doubt concerning the morality of some action)
Meaning & usage
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)
Spanish scruple, escrupulo (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.2 g)
English or American scruple (a unit of mass equivalent to about 1.3 g)
synonym of minuto: minute (¹⁄₆₀ of a degree)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Latin scrūpus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin scrūpulusubor. Spanish escrúpulo Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrūpulus. Cognate with Portuguese escrópulo, escrúpulo.
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