brimstone

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Sulfur.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A whore.
4. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
5. (countable, uncountable) The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
6. (Internet, countable, uncountable) Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.

Teenoorgestelde van

gemerald

Sinonieme

sulphur

sulfur

native sulphur

native sulfur

brimstone butterfly

asunder

common brimstone

busted

dead

💀

kaput

Vertalings

soufre

Schwefel

azufre

enxofre

Zitronenfalter

sulphur

zolfo

θειάφι

zwavel

kükürt

sofre

sulpur

θείο

Gonepteryx rhamni

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈbɹɪmstəʊn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: brymston

Geërf van Old English: brynstān

Verwante met Skots: brunstane

Verwante met Yslands: brennisteinn

Verwante met Duits: Bernstein

In summary

From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to brian + stone, or burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now restricted to Biblical usage.