sofre

Inherited from Old Catalan sofre, from Latin sulfur, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Doublet of the borrowed form sulfur. Compare Occitan solpre, French soufre, Spanish azufre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈso.fɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈso.fɾe]

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sofre m (uncountable)

1. sulfur

• ensofrar

• sulfuri
• sulfúric

• “sofre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sofre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sofre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sofre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

sofre

1. third-person singular present indicative of sufrir

• solpre

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sofre m (uncountable)

1. sulfur

sofre

1. inflection of sofrer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative