scrupulosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?

Latin scrūpus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin scrūpulus

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Latin scrūpulōsus

From scrūpulus + -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [skruː.pʊˈɫoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [skru.puˈlɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

scrūpulōsus (feminine scrūpulōsa, neuter scrūpulōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. full of sharp stones
2. rough, rugged
3. steep
4. exact, precise, anxious, careful, scrupulous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	scrūpulōsus	scrūpulōsa	scrūpulōsum		scrūpulōsī	scrūpulōsae	scrūpulōsa
genitive	scrūpulōsī	scrūpulōsae	scrūpulōsī		scrūpulōsōrum	scrūpulōsārum	scrūpulōsōrum
dative	scrūpulōsō	scrūpulōsae	scrūpulōsō		scrūpulōsīs
accusative	scrūpulōsum	scrūpulōsam	scrūpulōsum		scrūpulōsōs	scrūpulōsās	scrūpulōsa
ablative	scrūpulōsō	scrūpulōsā	scrūpulōsō		scrūpulōsīs
vocative	scrūpulōse	scrūpulōsa	scrūpulōsum		scrūpulōsī	scrūpulōsae	scrūpulōsa

Descendants

• Catalan: escrupolós
• Middle French: scrupuleux
  • → English: scrupulous
  • French: scrupuleux
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: skrupuløs
• Galician: escrupuloso
• → German: skrupulös
• Italian: scrupoloso
• Portuguese: escrupuloso
• Sicilian: scrupulusu
• → Swedish: skrupulös
• Spanish: escrupuloso

References

• “scrupulosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scrupulosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "scrupulosus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “scrupulosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.