The story
- Latin · derived fromscrūpulōsus“careful, scrupulous”
- Middle French · derived fromscrupuleux
- English todayscrupulously
From scrupulous + -ly, from Middle French scrupuleux, from Latin scrūpulōsus (“careful, scrupulous”), from scrūpulus (“anxiety, uneasiness”), diminutive from scrūpus (“sharp stone; anxiety”) + -ulus.
Words from the same roots
Middle Frenchscrupuleux all →
scrupulous
Latinscrūpulōsus all →
scrupulous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.