scrupus.
sharp stone; worry, anxiety;
Meaning & usage
a rough or sharp stone
anxiety; uneasiness
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewp-, extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”), whence curtus. Alternatively, from *skroypos, from a different extension *skreyp-. In either case, a relationship with scrūta is possible, but semantically distant.
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