It came from the Dutch word docke.
From the Japanese word 'taikun' meaning great lord or prince
marco polo
The origin of a word indicates the language the word originally came from, or the languages certain parts (such as prefixes and suffixes) come from.
The word passed into English from Old French 'essaier'. From an earlier time this may have been borrowed from Latin 'exigere'
A scruple is not a coin, but a weight. And the word is not Greek, but Latin in origin. The word scruple comes from a Latin word meaning sharp pebble, and this is true of both the English word for a weight and the word for a moral consideration. As a weight, a scruple is in the apothecaries' series of the English system, and is one third part of a apothecaries' dram. The word dram comes from the Greek word drachma, which was both a weight and a denomination of coinage. Perhaps it is from this connection that the idea came of its being a Greek coin.
Scruple means a feeling of hesitation or doubt in regards to the morality of an action. It can mean to be reluctant or hesitate to do something that you think might be wrong. He does not scruple to ask his family for money.
The root of the word "scruple" comes from the Latin word "scrupulus," meaning a small sharp stone or pebble. This is likely because a scruple was originally seen as a moral or ethical hesitation that felt like a small, nagging discomfort.
One scruple is 20 grains.
(The noun for moral hesitation is almost always used as the plural "scruples". Even rarer in US use is the verb to scruple, to hesitate.)"The old manager never fired a pregnant woman, but his successor had no such scruples."
1 scruple is 1.3 (1.2959782) grams.
1 scruple is 1296 (1295.9782) milligrams.
The root word of scrupulous is "scruple," which comes from the Latin word "scrupulus" meaning a small sharp stone or a doubt or hesitation.
Man Without Scruple - 1906 was released on: USA: 24 November 1906
1 scruple = 1.296 milligrams.
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It derives from the Latin language word 'scrupulus', meaning "doubt, trouble, anxiety, uneasiness of mind, a sharp or pointed stone, or, a twenty-fourth part of an ounce".