enxofre – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: enxofre
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	enxofre
Plural m	enxofres

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like enxofre

egocentrismo, lantanídeo, lantanídio, miligrama, flash card, decímetro, fingimento, mililitro, parassuicídio, algómetro, ancoradouro, ancoradoiro, escândalo, sereio, sereno, sestro, seguro, senado, enlatamento, Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

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. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'suffre', Latin Nouns 'sulfur', Galician Nouns 'xofre', Spanish Nouns 'azufre'.

Verbs referencing "enxofre"

Galician Nouns enxofre, Galician Nouns xofre.

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