scrupulosus
Latin
Etymology
scrūpulus + -ōsus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skruː.puˈloː.sus/, [s̠kruːpʊˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skru.puˈlo.sus/, [skrupuˈlɔːs̬us]
Adjective
scrūpulōsus (feminine scrūpulōsa, neuter scrūpulōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- Full of sharp stones
- rough, rugged
- steep
- exact, precise, anxious, careful, scrupulous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | scrūpulōsus | scrūpulōsa | scrūpulōsum | scrūpulōsī | scrūpulōsae | scrūpulōsa | |
| Genitive | scrūpulōsī | scrūpulōsae | scrūpulōsī | scrūpulōsōrum | scrūpulōsārum | scrūpulōsōrum | |
| Dative | scrūpulōsō | scrūpulōsō | scrūpulōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | scrūpulōsum | scrūpulōsam | scrūpulōsum | scrūpulōsōs | scrūpulōsās | scrūpulōsa | |
| Ablative | scrūpulōsō | scrūpulōsā | scrūpulōsō | scrūpulōsīs | |||
| Vocative | scrūpulōse | scrūpulōsa | scrūpulōsum | scrūpulōsī | scrūpulōsae | scrūpulōsa | |
Descendants
- English: scrupulous
- French: scrupuleux
- Galician: escrupuloso
- Italian: scrupoloso
- Portuguese: escrupuloso
- Sicilian: scrupulusu
- 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’s 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