μόλυβδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μόλιβος (mólibos)

Etymology

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀗𐀪𐀺𐀈 (mo-ri-wo-do), from Anatolian (compare Lydian 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠 (mariwda) ‘dark’), from Proto-Indo-European *morkʷ-iyo-, from a root *morkʷ- (“dark”).

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /mólybdos/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mólybdos/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mólyβðos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mólyvðos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mólivðos/

Noun

μόλυβδος • (mólubdos) m (genitive μολύβδου); second declension

1. lead (the metal)
2. graphite

Inflection

Second declension of μόλυβδος, μολύβδου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	μόλυβδος	μολύβδω	μόλυβδοι
Genitive	μολύβδου	μολύβδοιν	μολύβδων
Dative	μολύβδῳ	μολύβδοιν	μολύβδοις
Accusative	μόλυβδον	μολύβδω	μολύβδους
Vocative	μόλυβδε	μολύβδω	μόλυβδοι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Related terms

• μολύβδαινα (molúbdaina)
• μολυβδίς (molubdís)

See also

• Latin: plumbum

References

• μόλυβδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόλυβδος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μόλυβδος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lead idem, page 481.

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Greek

Noun

μόλυβδος • (mólyvdos) m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) lead

Declension

Declension of μόλυβδος (mólyvdos)

	singular
nominative	μόλυβδος •
genitive	μολύβδου •
accusative	μόλυβδο •
vocative	μόλυβδε •

Derived terms

• αμόλυβδος (amólyvdos, “unleaded”)

Coordinate terms

• Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements
• μολύβι n (molývi, “pencil”)
• μολυβδαίνιο n (molyvdaínio, “molybdenum”)

Further reading

• μόλυβδος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el