sulfite (n.)

salt of sulfurous acid, 1790, from sulfur + -ite (2).

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also sulphur, c. 1300, from Anglo-French sulfere, Old French soufre "sulfur, fire and brimstone, hellfire" (13c.), later also sulphur, from Late Latin sulfur, from Latin sulphur, probably from a root meaning "to burn." Ousted native brimstone and cognate Old English swefl, German schwefel, Swedish swafel, Dutch zwavel. The spelling with -ph- is standard in Britain, but its suggestion of a Greek origin is misleading.

-ite (2)

chemical salt suffix, from French -ite, alteration of -ate (see -ate (3)).

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