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 (1997–2026), “Gypsum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “gypsum”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.
• gypsum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡyp.sũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒip.sum]

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^[1]