The story
- Latin · derived fromsulphuretum“relating to sulphur; sulphide”
- English todaysulfuret
From Latin sulphuretum (“relating to sulphur; sulphide”), coined in 1788 as sulphuret by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation of French sulfure. By surface analysis, sulfur + -uret.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.