Phosphor

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English

Proper noun

Phosphor

  1. Alternative spelling of Phosphorus (“the planet Venus, as the morning star”)
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto IX:
      All night no ruder air perplex
      ⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
      ⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light
      Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
    • 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518:
      Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus, […]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Phosphor.

German

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔsfoɐ/
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Noun

Phosphor m (strong, genitive Phosphors, no plural)

  1. phosphorus
  2. phosphor

Declension

Declension of Phosphor
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein der Phosphor
genitive eines des Phosphors
dative einem dem Phosphor
accusative einen den Phosphor

Coordinate terms

Further reading

  • “Phosphor” in Duden online
  • “Phosphor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Luxembourgish

Noun

Phosphor ? (uncountable)

  1. phosphorus
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