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sulphur

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English

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Noun

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sulphur(countableanduncountable,pluralsulphurs)

  1. Alternative spelling ofsulfur

Derived terms

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Verb

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sulphur(third-person singular simple presentsulphurs,present participlesulphuring,simple past and past participlesulphured)

  1. Alternative spelling ofsulfur

Usage notes

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  • 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 theIUPAChas only approved the spellingsulfur.[1]

References

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  1. ^Nature Chemistry1, 333 (2009).doi:10.1038/nchem.301

Anagrams

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Latin

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LatinWikipediahas an article on:
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Chemical element
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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From aHellenisationof earliersulpur,from the root*selp-(“fat, oil”).Cognate withEnglishsalve,Sanskritसर्पिस्(sarpís,“cleaned melted butter”),सृप्र(sṛprá,“greasy, smooth”),Tocharian Bṣalype(“ointment”),and perhapsἔλπος(élpos,“?olive oil, fat”)orAncient Greekὄλπη(ólpē,“flask for oil”).

According to De Vaan citing Szemerényi,[1]perhaps from an s-stemProto-Indo-European*sélpos.However, De Vaan finds both the -él- > -ól- and -os > -ur changes to be irregular (for -ol- > -ul- seesulcus), adding that perhaps it comes fromProto-Italic*solpor,from an r/n-stemProto-Indo-European*sólpr̥instead.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sulphurn(genitivesulphuris);third declension

  1. sulfur,brimstone
  2. lightning

Declension

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Third-declensionnoun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative sulphur sulphura
genitive sulphuris sulphurum
dative sulphurī sulphuribus
accusative sulphur sulphura
ablative sulphure sulphuribus
vocative sulphur sulphura

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^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”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sulphur”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromAnglo-Normansulfre,fromLatinsulfur.

Noun

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sulphur(pluralsulphurs)

  1. sulfur

Descendants

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References

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