gypsum

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Gypsum

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Etymology

From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of gesso.

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Noun

gypsum (countable and uncountable, plural gypsums or gypsa)

  1. A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris.
    • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 7:
      Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard.

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos).

Pronunciation

Noun

gypsum n (genitive gypsī); second declension

  1. gypsum
  2. a plaster figure

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gypsum gypsa
Genitive gypsī gypsōrum
Dative gypsō gypsīs
Accusative gypsum gypsa
Ablative gypsō gypsīs
Vocative gypsum gypsa

Descendants

  • Asturian: yelsu, xiz
  • Catalan: guix
  • Friulian: ges
  • Galician: xeso, xiz
  • Italian: gesso
  • Portuguese: giz, gesso
  • Sicilian: jissu
  • Spanish: gis, yeso
  • Venetian: xeso, ges
  • → English: gypsum (learned)
  • → French: gypse
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *gips (see there for further descendants)
  • → Portuguese: gipso

References

  • “gypsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gypsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gypsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “gypsum”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
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