scrupulum

== Latin == === Etymology === Presumably the noun "unit of weight" derives from scrūpulus (“small pebble”), but the Oxford English Dictionary notes that "some scholars dispute the identity of the word" as a consequence of the common alternative forms in -ī-. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskruː.pʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskruː.pu.lum] === Noun === scrūpulum accusative singular of scrūpulus === Noun === scrūpulum n (genitive scrūpulī); second declension a unit of weight, corresponding to one twenty-fourth of an uncia (Roman ounce) Alternative forms: scrīpulum, scrīptulum, scrīptlum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “scrupulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scrupulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “scrupulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “scrupulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin