Etymology

sulfosalt

S1U1L1F4O1S1A1L1T1

Today it means: A complex sulfide mineral with certain proportions of a metal, a semi-metal, and sulfur (or, rarely, selenium). Full definition →

English salt ← Latin saltus ← Middle English sulphur
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latinsulpur
  2. Latinsulfur
  3. Latinsulphur
  4. Anglo-Normansulfre
  5. Middle Englishsulphur
  6. Englishsulfur
  7. Englishsulfo-
  8. Latinsaliō
  9. Latinsaltus
  10. Englishsalt
  11. English todaysulfosalt

From sulfo- + salt.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.