enxofre

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.

• IPA^(key): /enˈʃɔfɾe/ [enʲˈʃɔ.fɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɔfɾe
• Hyphenation: en‧xo‧fre

enxofre m (plural enxofres)

1. sulphur, sulfur

• enxofrar
• xofre

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.

• Hyphenation: en‧xo‧fre

enxofre m (plural enxofres)

1. (chemistry, uncountable) sulfur
2. an atom of sulfur

• “enxofre” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.