μόλυβδος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- μόλιβος (mólibos)
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀗𐀪𐀺𐀈 (mo-ri-wo-do), from an Anatolian word cognate with Lydian 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠 (marivda, “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *morkʷ-iyo-, from a root *morkʷ- (“dark”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
μόλυβδος • (mólubdos) m (genitive μολύβδου); second declension
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόλυβδος ho mólubdos |
τὼ μολύβδω tṑ molúbdō |
οἱ μόλυβδοι hoi mólubdoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μολύβδου toû molúbdou |
τοῖν μολύβδοιν toîn molúbdoin |
τῶν μολύβδων tôn molúbdōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μολύβδῳ tôi molúbdōi |
τοῖν μολύβδοιν toîn molúbdoin |
τοῖς μολύβδοις toîs molúbdois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόλυβδον tòn mólubdon |
τὼ μολύβδω tṑ molúbdō |
τοὺς μολύβδους toùs molúbdous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόλυβδε mólubde |
μολύβδω molúbdō |
μόλυβδοι mólubdoi | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. |
Related terms[edit]
- μολύβδαινα (molúbdaina)
- μολυβδίς (molubdís)
See also[edit]
- Latin: plumbum
References[edit]
- ^ Ivo Hajnal, Graeco-Anatolian Contacts in the Mycenaean Period (Innsbruck: University of Innsbruck), 6.
- ^ H.C. Melchert, “Greek mólybdos as loanword from Lydian”, Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and their Neighbours. Proceedings of an International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction, September 17-19, 2004, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, eds. B.J.Collins, M.R. Bachvarova & I.C. Rutherford (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008), 153-157.
Further reading[edit]
- 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.
Greek[edit]
Noun[edit]
μόλυβδος • (mólyvdos) m (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
Declension of μόλυβδος (mólyvdos)
Coordinate terms[edit]
- Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements
- μολύβι n (molývi, “pencil”)
- μολυβδαίνιο n (molyvdaínio, “molybdenum”)
Derived terms[edit]
- αμόλυβδος (amólyvdos, “unleaded”)
Further reading[edit]
μόλυβδος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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