What is the origin name of sulphur?

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What is the origin name of sulphur?
Brimstone is an archaic name for sulfur.
Reply:Latin, where most of our scientific names come from.





According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur


"The Latin name of the element is sulfur with an F. Since it is an original Latin name and not a Classical Greek loan, the fricative phoneme is indeed denoted with f rather than ph (which would denote the Greek letter 蠁). Sulfur in Greek is theion (胃蔚峥栁课?, from whence comes the prefix thio-."
Reply:Sulfur (Sanskrit, sulvari; Latin sulfur or sulpur) was known in ancient times, and is referred to in the Biblical Pentateuch (Genesis). The word itself probably is from the Arabic sufra meaning yellow, from the bright color of the naturally occurring form, although the Sanskrit name for sulfur, sulvari could also be interpreted as meaning "enemy of copper"
Reply:Sulphur was known in ancient times and referred to in Genesis as brimstone. Assyrian texts dated around 700-600 BC refer to it as the "product of the riverside", where deposits could be found. In the 9th century BC, Homer mentioned "pest-averting sulphur". In 424 BC, the tribe of Bootier destroyed a city's walls using a burning mixture of coal, sulphur, and tar.