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派生語

動詞

sulphur (third-person singular simple present sulphurs, present participle sulphuring, simple past and past participle sulphured)

1. (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of sulfur.

使用する際の注意点

• This is the traditional popular spelling in the UK, India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. However, it is considered non-standard in scientific contexts, as the IUPAC has only approved the spelling sulfur.

参照

アナグラム

• uphurls

語源

From Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur.

名詞

sulphur (plural sulphurs)

1. sulfur

派生した語

• English: sulphur, sulfur

参照

• “sulphur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

別の表記

• sulpur (archaic)
• sulfur (late-Classical)

語源

Hellenised variant of earlier sulpur. Etymology uncertain, but likely related to Proto-Germanic *sweblaz (“sulfur”).

• 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.
• 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.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsʊɫ.pʰʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsul.fur]

名詞

sulphur n (genitive sulphuris); third declension

1. sulfur, brimstone
2. lightning

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “sulphur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sulphur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers