gypsum
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Etymology edit
From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of gesso.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪp.səm/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
gypsum (countable and uncountable, plural gypsums or gypsa)
- A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris.
- 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 7:
- Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard.
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mineral
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Further reading edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡyp.sum/, [ˈɡʏps̠ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒip.sum/, [ˈd͡ʒipsum]
Noun edit
gypsum n (genitive gypsī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gypsum | gypsa |
Genitive | gypsī | gypsōrum |
Dative | gypsō | gypsīs |
Accusative | gypsum | gypsa |
Ablative | gypsō | gypsīs |
Vocative | gypsum | gypsa |
Descendants edit
- Asturian: yelsu, xiz
- Catalan: guix
- Friulian: ges
- Galician: xeso, xiz
- Italian: gesso
- → English: gesso
- Portuguese: giz, gesso
- Sicilian: jissu
- Spanish: gis, yeso
- Venetian: xeso, ges
- → English: gypsum (learned)
- → French: gypse
- → Proto-West Germanic: *gips (see there for further descendants)
- → Portuguese: gipso
References edit
- “gypsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gypsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gypsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “gypsum”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]