sulphur
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sulphur (countable and uncountable, plural sulphurs)
- Alternative spelling of sulfur
Derived terms
[edit]- chlorsulphuron
- disulphur
- Hot Sulphur Springs
- organosulphur
- Owly sulphur, a type of owlfly
- radiosulphur
- sulphurate
- sulphurflower
- sulphur-free
- sulphurian
- sulphuriferous
- sulphurine
- sulphurise
- sulphurity
- sulphurization
- sulphurless
- sulphurlike
- sulphursome
- sulphur spring
- Sulphur Springs
- sulphurtransferase
- sulphurwort
- sulphury
- sulphuryl
- tetrasulphur
- western sulphur
- White Sulphur Springs
Verb
[edit]sulphur (third-person singular simple present sulphurs, present participle sulphuring, simple past and past participle sulphured)
- Alternative spelling of sulfur
Usage notes
[edit]- This is the traditional popular spelling in the UK and India, and an alternative spelling in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. However, it is considered non-standard in scientific contexts, as the IUPAC has only approved the spelling sulfur.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Nature Chemistry 1, 333 (2009). doi:10.1038/nchem.301
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Hellenisation of earlier sulpur, from the root *selp- (“fat, oil”). Cognate with English salve, Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís, “cleaned melted butter”), सृप्र (sṛprá, “greasy, smooth”), Tocharian B ṣalype (“ointment”), and perhaps ἔλπος (élpos, “?olive oil, fat”) or Ancient Greek ὄλπη (ólpē, “flask for oil”).
According to De Vaan citing Szemerényi,[1] perhaps from an s-stem Proto-Indo-European *sélpos. However, De Vaan finds both the -él- > -ól- and -os > -ur changes to be irregular (for -ol- > -ul- see sulcus), adding that perhaps it comes from Proto-Italic *solpor, from an r/n-stem Proto-Indo-European *sólpr̥ instead.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsul.pʰur/, [ˈs̠ʊɫ̪pʰʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsul.fur/, [ˈsulfur]
Noun
[edit]sulphur n (genitive sulphuris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sulphur | sulphura |
| Genitive | sulphuris | sulphurum |
| Dative | sulphurī | sulphuribus |
| Accusative | sulphur | sulphura |
| Ablative | sulphure | sulphuribus |
| Vocative | sulphur | sulphura |
Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- “sulphur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sulphur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- sulphre, sulphure, sulphour, sulpher, sulpur, sulfur, sulfurre, sulfer, soulphre, soulfre, solfre, soufur, soufre
Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.
Noun
[edit]sulphur (plural sulphurs)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “sulphur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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