Noun: gypsum
| Singular | gypsum |
| Plural | gypsums; gypsa |
Sample Sentences
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...but he has been able to analyze the matter removed, and to prove it, by chemical evidence, to consist of Prussian blue, and gypsum principally. [1847, editorial staff, “Chemical Analysis of Tea”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 80:]
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Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard. [1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 7:]
Nouns inflected like gypsum
hemiscrotum,
saeculum,
stramonium,
proscenium,
dinotherium,
quinquennium,
ambulacrum,
prolabium,
preepisternum,
coimperium,
septennium,
fulcrum,
emporium,
subminimum,
mausolæum,
mausoleum,
serpentarium,
triregnum,
viaticum,
megaannum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of gesso. See: Latin Nouns '
gypsum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
γύψος'.