sulfur

• sulphur (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK; nonstandard in scientific usage)

From Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌl.fə/
• (US) enPR: sŭl'fər, IPA^(key): /ˈsʌl.fɚ/

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• Hyphenation: sul‧fur

sulfur (usually uncountable, plural sulfurs)

1. (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16.

   Hypernym: chalcogen

2. (countable, uncountable) A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.

   sulfur colour:  

• (element): brimstone (archaic, not in technical usage)

sulfur (comparative more sulfur, superlative most sulfur)

1. Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.

sulfur (third-person singular simple present sulfurs, present participle sulfuring, simple past and past participle sulfured)

1. (transitive) To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.

• “Sulfur” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
• “sulfur”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

Borrowed from Latin sulfur; doublet of the inherited sofre.

sulfur m (plural sulfurs)

1. sulfide, sulphide

Ultimately borrowed from Latin sulfur; cf. English sulfur.

sulfur

1. (obsolete) sulphur
   • 1855, Tidsskrift for populære fremstillinger af naturvidenskaben, page 379

     ... men meget snart gik man bort fra disse bestemte Stoffer, og Sulfur og Mercurius gik nu fra at være  ...

   • 1896, Alfred Georg Ludvig Lehmann, Overtro og trolddom fra de æeldste tider til vore dage

     ... forskellige Stoffer adskilte sig kun fra hinanden derved, at de indeholdt forskellige Mængder af Sulfur og Merkurius; ...

   • 1918, Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs skrifter: Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk afdeling

     Thi Agerjord er ikke andet end brændbare Bestanddele (Sulfur) og Alkali (sal fixum), ...

• svovl

• sulphur, sulpur

From Hellenization of sulpur, of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Sanskrit शुल्बारि (śulbāri, “sulfur”). Also compare Old Armenian ծծումբ (ccumb, “sulfur”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsul.fur/, [ˈsʊɫ.fʊr]

sulfur n (genitive sulfuris); third declension

1. sulfur, brimstone
2. lightning

Third declension neuter.

• sulfur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sulfur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sulfur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• سولفور‎

Borrowed from English sulfur, from Middle English, from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.

• IPA^(key): /sulfo(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -fo(ɹ), -o(ɹ)

sulfur (Jawi spelling سولفور)

1. sulfur (element)

• belerang / بليرڠ‎