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sulphur

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English

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Noun

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sulphur (countable and uncountable, plural sulphurs)

  1. (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of sulfur.

Derived terms

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Verb

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sulphur (third-person singular simple present sulphurs, present participle sulphuring, simple past and past participle sulphured)

  1. (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of sulfur.

Usage notes

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  • This is the traditional popular spelling in the UK, India, 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

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  1. ^ “So long sulphur”, in Nature Chemistry‎[1], volume 1, number 5, August 2009, →DOI, →ISSN, page 333: “It is not a question of American or Oxford English spelling, it is a given name — and 'correcting' such a name to a different spelling is wholly inappropriate.”

Anagrams

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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sulphur n (genitive sulphuris); third declension

  1. sulfur, brimstone
  2. lightning

Declension

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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

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References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*swebla-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 497

Further reading

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  • “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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.

Noun

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sulphur (plural sulphurs)

  1. sulfur

Descendants

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References

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