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 edit
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) 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.