Noun: sulphur
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | sulphur |
| Plural | sulphura |
Genitive
| Singular | sulphuris |
| Plural | sulphurum |
Dative
| Singular | sulphurī |
| Plural | sulphuribus |
Accusative
| Singular | sulphur |
| Plural | sulphura |
Ablative
| Singular | sulphure |
| Plural | sulphuribus |
Vocative
| Singular | sulphur |
| Plural | sulphura |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sulphur
zingiber,
cadāver,
aecor,
allēc,
iūger,
jūger,
cicer,
iubar,
jubar,
lāsar,
lāser,
piper,
gas,
vēr,
siler,
sūber,
aequor,
fulgur,
guttur,
laccar, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Hellenised variant of earlier sulpur. Etymology uncertain, but likely related to Proto-Germanic *sweblaz (“sulfur”).
2. *The *sw- in the Germanic term suggests a root *swelp-, which could have arisen as a blend of *selp- (“fat, oil”) and *swel- (“to burn”) or alternatively, be a non-Indo-European Wanderwort.
3. *If the comparison with *sweblaz is set aside, the Latin form can simply be derived from the root *selp-, making it cognate to Proto-Germanic *salbō (“salve, ointment”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís, “cleaned melted butter”), सृप्र (sṛprá, “greasy, smooth”), Tocharian B ṣalype (“ointment”), and perhaps Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos, “?olive oil, fat”) or ὄλπη (ólpē, “flask for oil”). Per De Vaan, Szemerényi reconstructed an s-stem Proto-Indo-European *sélpos. (For the analogical change of the ending to -ur, compare fulgur; for the phonetic change of *-ol- > -ul-, compare sulcus, and for *-el- > *-ol- > -ul-, compare pulpa.) However, De Vaan finds both the -él- > -ól- and -os > -ur changes to be irregular, and suggests the word alternatively comes from Proto-Italic *solpor, from an r/n-stem Proto-Indo-European *sólpr̥ instead.
Verbs referencing "sulphur"
Italian Nouns
zolfo, German Nouns
Sulfur, English Nouns
sulfate, Italian Nouns
solfo, Romanian Nouns
sulfină, Swedish Nouns
sulfat.
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