gypsum
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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]
- gypse (obsolete)
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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Translations[edit]
mineral
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Further reading[edit]
- David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Gypsum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “gypsum”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.
gypsum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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]
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