asbestos – English noun declension

English noun forms of asbestos

Noun: asbestos
Singularasbestos
Pluralasbestoses

Sample Sentences

  • All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled.
  • Asbestos insulation was once ubiquitous.
  • Consul Baker, of Antung, China, states that valuable deposits of asbestos have been found in the vicinity of Kuantien, a small town lying about 45 miles northeast of Antung.[…]There are three mines now in operation, each employing about 30 workers. These workers, however, are mostly farmers who devote only their spare time to mining and use simply hammers and chisels and gather only the asbestos which lies near the surface. [1913 February, “Asbestos Mines in China”, in Mines and Minerals, volume XXXIII, number 7, Scranton, PA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 398, column 3:]
  • Insulation against sound and changes in external temperature is given by a thickness of asbestos on the inside of the panels. [1946 November and December, “New L.M.S.R. Royal Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:]
  • She sipped the coffee; she always did have asbestos lips. [2013 December 17, Tom Holt, When It's A Jar: YouSpace Book 2, Hachette UK, →ISBN:]
  • They were exceptionally good and were accompanied by a chili sauce that had to be eaten with great caution unless you had an asbestos tongue but was nonetheless delicious. [2014 May 29, Bernard Veale, Read My Lips, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:]
  • "Yikes!" I yelped. "This water is scalding!" Lena explained to me that she had asbestos hands. Since it was obvious that I did not have asbestos hands, I offered to dry rather than wash. [2020 October 13, Valérie Falzo, Extraordinary Souls I Have Known, Covenant Books, Inc., →ISBN:]
  • Dad plucks the steamed Chinese charcuterie out with his asbestos fingers, places it on the wooden circular chopping board and begins slicing it into bite-size pieces before returning it to the pot. [2022 July 21, Angela Hui, Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter, Hachette UK, →ISBN:]

Nouns inflected like asbestos

asbestos,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Hellenic *ə-
5. Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)
6. Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes-der.?
7. Ancient Greek σβέννῡμῐ (sbénnūmĭ)
8. Ancient Greek σβεστός (sbestós)
9. Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos)bor.
10. Latin asbestosbor.
11. Old French abestosder.
12. English asbestos
13. From Old French abestos, from Latin asbestos, itself from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) + σβέννῡμῐ (sbénnūmĭ, “to quench, quell”). See: Latin Nouns 'asbestos', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἄσβεστος'.