gypsum

• gypse (obsolete)

From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of gesso.

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪp.səm/

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gypsum (countable and uncountable, plural gypsums or gypsa)

1. A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 7:

     Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard.

• gypsobelum
• gypsobioside
• gypsophila, gyp
• gypsotrioside

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Gypsum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “gypsum”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.
• gypsum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡyp.sum/, [ˈɡʏps̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒip.sum/, [ˈd͡ʒipsum]

gypsum n (genitive gypsī); second declension

1. gypsum
2. a plaster figure

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “gypsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gypsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gypsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “gypsum”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎