sulphur
Meaning
- neutersulfur, brimstone
- neuterlightning
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sulphur 🜍, 🜍a, 🜍ra | sulphura sulphurēs, 🜍a, 🜍ra |
| genitive | sulphuris 🜍is, 🜍ris, 🜍rum, 🜍um | sulphurum 🜍rum, 🜍um |
| dative | sulphurī 🜍ī, 🜍ibus, 🜍rī, 🜍ribus | sulphuribus 🜍ibus, 🜍ribus |
| accusative | sulphur sulphurem, 🜍, 🜍a, 🜍ra | sulphura sulphurēs, 🜍a, 🜍ra |
| ablative | sulphure 🜍e, 🜍ibus, 🜍re, 🜍ribus | sulphuribus 🜍ibus, 🜍ribus |
| vocative | sulphur 🜍, 🜍a, 🜍ra | sulphura sulphurēs, 🜍a, 🜍ra |
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Hellenised variant of earlier sulpur. Etymology uncertain, but likely related to Proto-Germanic *sweblaz (“sulfur”). *The *sw- in the Germanic term suggests a root *swelp-, which could have arisen as a blend of *selp- (“fat, oil”) and *swel- (“to burn”) or alternatively, be a non-Indo-European Wanderwort. *If the comparison with *sweblaz is set aside, the Latin form can simply be derived from the root *selp-, making it cognate to Proto-Germanic *salbō (“salve, ointment”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís, “cleaned melted butter”), सृप्र (sṛprá, “greasy, smooth”), Tocharian B ṣalype (“ointment”), and perhaps Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos, “?olive oil, fat”) or ὄλπη (ólpē, “flask for oil”). Per De Vaan, Szemerényi reconstructed an s-stem Proto-Indo-European *sélpos. (For the analogical change of the ending to -ur, compare fulgur; for the phonetic change of *-ol- > -ul-, compare sulcus, and for *-el- > *-ol- > -ul-, compare pulpa.) However, De Vaan finds both the -él- > -ól- and -os > -ur changes to be irregular, and suggests the word alternatively comes from Proto-Italic *solpor, from an r/n-stem Proto-Indo-European *sólpr̥ instead.
- Catalansulfur
- Englishsulfur
- Englishsulphur
- Romaniansulf
- Albaniansqufuri
- Albaniansulfur
- Welshsylffwrfrom English sulfur
- Tajikсулфурfrom English sulfur
- Turkishsülf
- Englishsulfurfrom Old Northern French sulfre
- Englishsulphurfrom Old Northern French sulfre
- Frenchsoufrefrom Old French soufre
- Malaysulfurfrom Old Northern French sulfre
- Malayسولفورfrom Old Northern French sulfre
- Franco-Provençalsopro
- Franco-Provençalsofro
- Sardiniansúlfaru
- Sardiniansúlfuru
- Sardiniansúrfuru
- Italianzolfo
- Italiansolfo
- Siciliansùrfuru
- Catalansofre
- Occitansofre
- Ribagorçaneixufrefrom Aragonese xufre
- Auvergnatsiuprefrom Occitan sofre
- Auvergnatsuprefrom Occitan sofre
- Languedociensolprefrom Occitan sofre
- Languedociensiuprefrom Occitan sofre
- Limousinsiufrefrom Occitan sofre
- Provençalsouprefrom Occitan sofre
- Provençalsoprefrom Occitan sofre
- Portugueseenxofrefrom Old Galician-Portuguese suffre
- Spanishazufrefrom Old Spanish sufre
- Galicianxofrefrom Old Galician-Portuguese suffre
- Basquesufrefrom Old Spanish sufre
- Aromanianscljifur
- Emiliansolfar
- Emiliansuifre
- Friuliansolfar
- Alpinesofrifrom Lombard solfor
- Alpinesolfrifrom Lombard solfor
- Alpinesofricfrom Lombard solfor
- Piedmontesesofro
- Piedmontesesorfo
- Piedmontesesolfo
- Piedmontesesolfer
In English words that came into English from sulphur
- sulfatesulphatum