sulphur
English
Noun
sulphur (countable and uncountable, plural sulphurs)
- Alternative spelling of sulfur.
Derived terms
- chlorsulphuron
- disulphur
- golden sulphur
- 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
sulphur (third-person singular simple present sulphurs, present participle sulphuring, simple past and past participle sulphured)
- Alternative spelling of sulfur.
Usage notes
- 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
- ^ Nature Chemistry 1, 333 (2009). doi:10.1038/nchem.301
Anagrams
Latin
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| S | |
| Previous: phosphorus (P) | |
| Next: chlorum (Cl) | |
Alternative forms
Etymology
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. The Latin has also been suggested to stem from a non-Indo-European Wanderwort; see Proto-Germanic *sweblaz (“sulfur”) for more.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsʊɫ.pʰʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsul.fur]
Noun
sulphur n (genitive sulphuris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (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
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: scljifur
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: súlfaru, súlfuru, súrfuru
- Borrowings:
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sulpur, -uris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 598
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*swebla-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 497
Further reading
- “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
Alternative forms
- sulphre, sulphure, sulphour, sulpher, sulpur, sulfur, sulfurre, sulfer, soulphre, soulfre, solfre, soufur, soufre
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.
Noun
sulphur (plural sulphurs)
Descendants
References
- “sulphur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.