escrúpulo

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrūpulus. Doublet of escrópulo. Cognate with Spanish escrúpulo. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -upulu Hyphenation: es‧crú‧pu‧lo === Noun === escrúpulo m (plural escrúpulos) scruple (doubt concerning the morality of some action) Synonyms: ansiedade, dúvida, hesitação apprehension (uneasy doubt concerning other issues, especially carefulness or pickiness about food) (historical) alternative form of escrópulo: a traditional unit of mass ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “escrúpulo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “escrúpulo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrūpulus. Cognate with Portuguese escrópulo, escrúpulo. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /esˈkɾupulo/ [esˈkɾu.pu.lo] Rhymes: -upulo Syllabification: es‧crú‧pu‧lo === Noun === 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) Spanish scruple, escrupulo (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.2 g) Coordinate terms: grano (1⁄24 escrúpulo), tomín (1⁄2 escrúpulo), adarme (1+1⁄2 escrúpulo), ochava (3 escrúpulos), castellano (6 escrúpulo), onza (24 escrúpulo) (historical) English or American scruple (a unit of mass equivalent to about 1.3 g) (astronomy, geometry, historical) synonym of minuto: minute (1⁄60 of a degree) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: escrupulo === Further reading === “escrúpulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025