enxofre
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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese suffre (with the prefix en-), from Latin sulfur, sulphur, suphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Portuguese enxofre, Spanish azufre.
Pronunciation
Noun
enxofre m (plural enxofres)
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Portuguese
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Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese suffre (with the prefix en-), from Latin sulfur, sulphur, suphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Galician xofre and Spanish azufre. Doublet of súlfur.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: en‧xo‧fre
Noun
enxofre m (plural enxofres)
- (chemistry, uncountable) sulfur
- an atom of sulfur
Related terms
Further reading
- “enxofre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024