azufre

See also: azufré

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin sulphur.

Noun

azufre m (plural azufres)

1. sulfur (element)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθufɾe/ [aˈθu.fɾe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aˈsufɾe/ [aˈsu.fɾe]
• Rhymes: -ufɾe
• Syllabification: a‧zu‧fre

Etymology 1

Chemical element
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Inherited from Old Spanish sufre, from Latin sulfur, sulphur, sulphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”).

Noun

azufre m (uncountable)

1. sulfur

Derived terms

• azufrar
• dióxido de azufre

 

See also

• azufre on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Etymology 2

Verb

azufre

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

Further reading

• “azufre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014