Noun: sufre
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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[…] ⁊ puſieren cabo della un poco de ſufre. ⁊ ruciaren la piedra con agua ſaldra della fuego tan fuerte […] ([…] and should they put atop it some sulfur and spray it with water, then the stone would spit fire so strong […]) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 2r:]
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& es fallada en tierra de affrica en las mineras del ſufre. Liuiana es. ⁊ fuerte de q̃brantar. (And it is found in the land of Africa, in the sulfur mines. It is light, but also hard to break.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 13r.:]
Nouns inflected like sufre
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin sulfur, sulphur, sulphure, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Catalan sofre and French soufre. See: Latin Nouns '
sulfur', Catalan Nouns '
sofre', French Nouns '
soufre'.
Verbs referencing "sufre"
Spanish Nouns
azufre, Old Portuguese Nouns
suffre.
Translations