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sulfur
English
Alternative forms
- sulphur (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK; nonstandard in scientific usage)
Etymology
From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?l.f?/
- (US) enPR: s?l'f?r, IPA(key): /?s?l.f?/
- Hyphenation: sul?fur
Noun
sulfur (usually uncountable, plural sulfurs)
- (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16.
- Synonym: (archaic, not in technical usage) brimstone
- Hypernym: chalcogen
- (countable, uncountable) A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
sulfur (comparative more sulfur, superlative most sulfur)
- Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
Translations
Verb
sulfur (third-person singular simple present sulfurs, present participle sulfuring, simple past and past participle sulfured)
- (transitive) To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.
Translations
See also
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Sulfur”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
- “sulfur”, in Mindat.org?[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sulfur; doublet of the inherited sofre.
Noun
sulfur m (plural sulfurs)
- sulfide, sulphide
Derived terms
- disulfur
Further reading
- “sulfur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sulfur” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “sulfur” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sulfur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology
Ultimately borrowed from Latin sulfur; cf. English sulfur.
Noun
sulfur
- (obsolete) sulphur
- 1855, Tidsskrift for populære fremstillinger af naturvidenskaben, page 379
- ... men meget snart gik man bort fra disse bestemte Stoffer, og Sulfur og Mercurius gik nu fra at være ...
- 1896, Alfred Georg Ludvig Lehmann, Overtro og trolddom fra de æeldste tider til vore dage
- ... forskellige Stoffer adskilte sig kun fra hinanden derved, at de indeholdt forskellige Mængder af Sulfur og Merkurius; ...
- 1918, Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs skrifter: Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk afdeling
- Thi Agerjord er ikke andet end brændbare Bestanddele (Sulfur) og Alkali (sal fixum), ...
- 1855, Tidsskrift for populære fremstillinger af naturvidenskaben, page 379
Synonyms
- svovl
Latin
Alternative forms
- sulphur, sulpur
Etymology
From Hellenization of sulpur, of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Sanskrit ???????? (?ulb?ri, “sulfur”). Also compare Old Armenian ?????? (ccumb, “sulfur”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sul.fur/, [?s????f?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sul.fur/, [?sulfur]
Noun
sulfur n (genitive sulfuris); third declension
- sulfur, brimstone
- lightning
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
References
- sulfur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sulfur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sulfur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Malay
Alternative forms
- ???????
Etymology
Borrowed from English sulfur, from Middle English, from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sulfo(?)/
- Rhymes: -fo(?), -o(?)
Noun
sulfur (Jawi spelling ??????)
- sulfur (element)
Synonyms
- belerang / ??????
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tetrathiophosphate
English
Etymology
tetra- +? thio- +? phosphate
Noun
tetrathiophosphate (plural tetrathiophosphates)
- (chemistry) Any thiophosphate in which four oxygen atoms have been replaced by sulfur
tetrathiophosphate From the web:
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