escrúpulo

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)

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.