Phosphorous
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late 17th century: from Latin, from Greek phōsphoros, from phōs ‘light’ + -phoros ‘-bringing’.
wiktionary
From phosphorus + -ous.
etymonline
phosphorous (adj.)
1777, "phosphorescent," from phosphorus + -ous. The chemical sense of "pertaining to, obtained from, or containing phosphorus" (1794) is immediately from French phosphoreux.
