brimstone

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

azufre

limonera

Opuesto a

gemerald

Sinónimos

sulphur

sulfur

native sulphur

native sulfur

brimstone butterfly

asunder

common brimstone

busted

dead

💀

kaput

Traducciones

soufre

Schwefel

Zitronenfalter

enxofre

sulphur

zolfo

θειάφι

zwavel

kükürt

sofre

sulpur

θείο

Gonepteryx rhamni

solfer

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈbɹɪmstəʊn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: brymston

Heredado de inglés antiguo: brynstān

Cognado con escocés: brunstane

Cognado con islandés: brennisteinn

Cognado con alemán: 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.