Escrupulo
noun
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Noun
- 1 A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 1.2 g and chiefly used for medicines. historical
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Unadapted borrowing from Spanish escrúpulo, from Latin scrūpulus (“scruple, nagging doubt, ¹⁄₂₄ uncia”), from scrūpus (“sharp stone, anxiety”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). Doublet of scruple and escropulo.
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