Noun: xofre
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Acharon en hun esqeiro hun pedaço de pedra xofre [...] et fogil et ysca et candea de çera et hun pente e mechas de xofre e hun cordón de sedas (They found in a tinder container a piece of sulphur stone … and a tinderbox, and tinder, and a candle made of wax, and a comb, and sulfur wicks, and a silk cord) [1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, page 315:]
Nouns inflected like xofre
nitróxeno,
sosego,
sogros,
ultrassom,
berilio,
xadrez,
chavismo,
papaventos,
paracaidismo,
medios sociais,
einsteinio,
estripacontos,
xénero humano,
xermanio,
balconismo,
ácido aspártico,
EPI,
mercurio,
iterbio,
fútbol sala, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Circa 1300. Already attested in From Old Galician-Portuguese in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (13th century) as suffre. From Latin sulfur, sulphur, sulphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Portuguese enxofre. See: Latin Nouns '
sulfur', Portuguese Nouns '
enxofre'.
Verbs referencing "xofre"
Portuguese Nouns
enxofre.
Translations