See also: Sulfur and sülfür

English edit

Chemical element
S
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Spectacular native sulfur crystals
 
Sulfur as an element usually is encountered as a fine powder or irregular lumps.

Alternative forms edit

  • sulphur (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK; no longer standard in scientific usage)

Etymology edit

From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌl.fə/
  • (US) enPR: sŭl'fər, IPA(key): /ˈsʌl.fɚ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sul‧fur

Noun edit

sulfur (usually uncountable, plural sulfurs)

  1. (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16.
    Synonym: (archaic, not in technical usage) brimstone
    Hypernym: chalcogen
  2. (countable, uncountable) A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
    sulfur:  
  3. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.
    Coordinate term: yellow

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terms derived from sulfur (noun)

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Adjective edit

sulfur (comparative more sulfur, superlative most sulfur)

  1. Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.

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Verb edit

sulfur (third-person singular simple present sulfurs, present participle sulfuring, simple past and past participle sulfured)

  1. (transitive) To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.

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Further reading edit

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024), “Sulfur”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • sulfur”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Albanian edit

 
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Noun edit

sulfur m (plural sulfure, definite sulfuri, definite plural sulfuret)

  1. (chemistry) sulfur

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Further reading edit

  • “sulfur”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin sulfur; doublet of the inherited sofre.

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Noun edit

sulfur m (plural sulfurs)

  1. sulfide, sulphide

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Danish edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately borrowed from Latin sulfur; cf. English sulfur.

Noun edit

sulfur

  1. (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  ...
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    • 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; ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1918, Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs skrifter: Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk afdeling:
      Thi Agerjord er ikke andet end brændbare Bestanddele (Sulfur) og Alkali (sal fixum), ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Indonesian edit

 
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Chemical element
S
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Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin sulfur.

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Noun edit

sulfur (first-person possessive sulfurku, second-person possessive sulfurmu, third-person possessive sulfurnya)

  1. (chemistry) sulfur
    Synonym: belerang

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Chemical element
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Etymology edit

From Hellenization of sulpur, of uncertain origin. Also compare Old Armenian ծծումբ (ccumb, sulfur).

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Noun edit

sulfur n (genitive sulfuris); third declension

  1. sulfur, brimstone
  2. lightning

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sulfur sulfura
Genitive sulfuris sulfurum
Dative sulfurī sulfuribus
Accusative sulfur sulfura
Ablative sulfure sulfuribus
Vocative sulfur sulfura

References edit

  • 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 edit

Chemical element
S
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English sulfur, from Middle English, from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.

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Noun edit

sulfur (Jawi spelling سولفور, plural sulfur-sulfur, informal 1st possessive sulfurku, 2nd possessive sulfurmu, 3rd possessive sulfurnya)

  1. sulfur (element)

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