phosphorus

See also: Phosphorus

English

Chemical element
P
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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin phōsphorus, from Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros, “the bearer of light”), from φῶς (phôs, “light”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fŏsʹfərəs, fŏsʹfrəs, IPA^(key): /ˈfɒsfəɹəs/, /ˈfɒsfɹəs/
• enPR: fäsʹfərəs, IPA^(key): /ˈfɑsfɚəs/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophones: phosphorous, Phosphorus

Noun

phosphorus (countable and uncountable, plural phosphoruses or phosphori)

2. (chemistry) a chemical element (symbol P) with an atomic number of 15, that exists in several allotropic forms.
3. (obsolete) any substance exhibiting phosphorescence; a phosphor

Usage notes

• Do not confuse phosphorus with phosphorous, which is an adjective.

Derived terms

• Baldwin's phosphorus
• black phosphorus
• Bolognian phosphorus
• Bononian phosphorus
• Canton's phosphorus
• diphosphorus
• foss, phos, phoss
• fossy, phossy
• Hittorf's phosphorus
• Homberg's phosphorus
• mercurial phosphorus
• Montalbano's phosphorus
• phosph-, phospho-
• phosphane
• phosphonium
• phosphorate
• phosphorent
• phosphoreous
• phosphoresce
• phosphoriferous
• phosphorite
• phosphoro-
• phosphorolysis
• phosphorus-31
• phosphorus bottle
• phosphorus cachexia
• phosphorus chloride
• phosphorus liver
• phosphorus match
• phosphorus necrosis
• phosphorus oxybromide
• phosphorus oxychloride
• phosphorus paste
• phosphorus pentabromide
• phosphorus pentachloride
• phosphorus pentafluoride
• phosphorus pentasulfide, phosphorus pentasulphide
• phosphorus pentoxide
• phosphorus poisoning
• phosphorus sesquisulfide, phosphorus sesquisulphide
• phosphorus tribromide
• phosphorus trichloride
• phosphorus trifluoride
• phosphorus trihydride
• phosphorus triiodide
• phosphoryl
• phossy jaw
• red phosphorus
• violet phosphorus
• white phosphorus
• yellow phosphorus

 

Related terms

• phosphate
• phosphatization
• phosphatized
• phosphatizing
• phosphide
• phosphine
• phosphite
• phosphor
• phosphoreal, phosphorial
• phosphoresce
• phosphorescence
• phosphorescent
• phosphoretic
• phosphorgummite
• phosphoric
• phosphorise, phosphorize
• phosphorism
• Phosphorist
• phosphorous
• phosphor-roesslerite, phosphorrösslerite
• phosphoruria, phosphuria
• Phosphorus
• phosphure
• phosphuret
• phosphureted

 

Translations

element

• Afrikaans: fosfor (af)
• Albanian: fosfor (sq) ?
• Arabic: فُسْفُور m (fusfūr)
• Armenian: ֆոսֆոր (hy) (fosfor)
• Asturian: fósforu (ast) m
• Basque: fosforoa
• Belarusian: фо́сфар m (fósfar)
• Breton: fosfor m
• Bulgarian: фо́сфор m (fósfor)
• Catalan: fòsfor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 磷 (leun⁴)

  Mandarin: 磷 (zh) (lìn)

• Cornish: fosforus ?
• Czech: fosfor (cs) m
• Danish: fosfor (da) n
• Dutch: fosfor (nl) n
• Esperanto: fosforo (eo)
• Estonian: fosfor (et)
• Faroese: fosfor n
• Finnish: fosfori (fi)
• French: phosphore (fr) m
• Friulian: fosfar ?
• Galician: fósforo (gl) m
• Georgian: ფოსფორი (pospori)
• German: Phosphor (de) m
• Greek: φώσφορος (el) m (fósforos)
• Hebrew: זרחן (he) (zarkhan)
• Hindi: भास्वर (hi) ? (bhāsvar)
• Hungarian: foszfor (hu)
• Icelandic: fosfór (is) n
• Interlingua: phosphoro
• Irish: fosfar (ga) m
• Italian: fosforo (it) m
• Japanese: リン (ja) (rin), 燐 (ja) (りん, rin)
• Kalmyk: сүүмг (süümg)
• Kashubian: fòsfòr
• Kazakh: фосфор (kk) (fosfor)
• Khmer: ហ្វូស្វ័រ (foosvoa)
• Korean: 인 (ko) (in) (燐 (ko)), 인소 (ko) (inso) (燐素)
• Latin: phosphorus (la) m
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• Latvian: fosfors ?
• Lingala: fosofo class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: fosforas (lt) ?
• Luxembourgish: Phosphor ?
• Macedonian: фосфор m (fosfor)
• Malay: fosforus
• Maltese: fosfru ?
• Manx: fosfaar ?
• Maori: pūtūtaewhetū
• Marathi: स्फुरद ? (sphurad)
• Mongolian: сүүмэг (süümeg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fosfor (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: fosfor (nn) m or n

• Occitan: fosfòr m
• Persian: فسفر (fa) (fosfor)
• Polish: fosfor (pl) m
• Portuguese: fósforo (pt) m
• Romanian: fosfor (ro) n
• Russian: фо́сфор (ru) m (fósfor)
• Scottish Gaelic: fosfor m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фо̏сфор m

  Roman: fȍsfor (sh) m

• Slovak: fosfor (sk) m
• Slovene: fósfor (sl) m
• Spanish: fósforo (es) m
• Swahili: fosforasi class 9/10
• Swedish: fosfor (sv) n or c
• Tagalog: posporo
• Tajik: фосфор (tg) (fosfor)
• Tamil: தீமுறி (tīmuṟi), பிரகாசிதம் (ta) (pirakācitam)
• Telugu: భాస్వరం (te) (bhāsvaraṁ)
• Thai: ฟอสฟอรัส (th) (fɔ́ɔs-fɔɔ-rás)
• Turkish: fosfor (tr)
• Ukrainian: фо́сфор m (fósfor)
• Uzbek: fosfor (uz)

  Cyrillic: фосфор (uz) (fosfor)

• Vietnamese: photpho (vi), phốtpho (vi)
• Volapük: fosfin (vo)
• Welsh: ffósfforws m
• West Frisian: fosfor ?

See also

• ADP
• AMP
• ATP
• bone-ash
• smoking stool syndrome

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros, “light-bearing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoːs.pʰo.rus/, [ˈpʰoːs̠pʰɔrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfos.fo.rus/, [ˈfɔsforus]

Noun

phōsphorus m (genitive phōsphorī); second declension

1. (New Latin, chemistry) phosphorus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phōsphorus	phōsphorī
Genitive	phōsphorī	phōsphorōrum
Dative	phōsphorō	phōsphorīs
Accusative	phōsphorum	phōsphorōs
Ablative	phōsphorō	phōsphorīs
Vocative	phōsphore	phōsphorī

Descendants

• Italian: fosforo