azufre

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See also: azufré

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Etymology

From Latin sulphur.

Noun

azufre m (plural azufres)

  1. sulfur (element)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθufɾe/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsufɾe/
  • Rhymes: -ufɾe
  • Syllabification: a‧zu‧fre

Etymology 1

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Chemical element
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Cristales de azufre.

Inherited from Old Spanish sufre, from Latin sulfur, sulphur, sulphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare modern French soufre. The initial a- could have appeared due to a misinterpretation of the expression piedra sufre (literally “sulfur stone”).[1]

Noun

azufre m (uncountable)

  1. sulfur
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

azufre

  1. inflection of azufrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ Coromines, Joan (1987) “azufre”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 76

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