μόλυβδος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βόλιβος (bólibos), μόλιβος (mólibos)
Etymology
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀗𐀪𐀺𐀈 (mo-ri-wo-do), from an Anatolian word cognate with Lydian 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠 (mariwda, “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *morgʷ-iyo-, from a root *mergʷ- (“dark”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.lyb.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lyb.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lyβ.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lyv.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.liv.ðos/
Noun
μόλυβδος • (mólubdos) m (genitive μολύβδου); second declension
- lead (the metal)
- graphite
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μόλῠβδος; τοῦ μολῠ́βδου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόλῠβδος ho mólubdos | τὼ μολῠ́βδω tṑ molúbdō | οἱ μόλῠβδοι hoi mólubdoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μολῠ́βδου toû molúbdou | τοῖν μολῠ́βδοιν toîn molúbdoin | τῶν μολῠ́βδων tôn molúbdōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μολῠ́βδῳ tôi molúbdōi | τοῖν μολῠ́βδοιν toîn molúbdoin | τοῖς μολῠ́βδοις toîs molúbdois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόλῠβδον tòn mólubdon | τὼ μολῠ́βδω tṑ molúbdō | τοὺς μολῠ́βδους toùs molúbdous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόλῠβδε mólubde | μολῠ́βδω molúbdō | μόλῠβδοι mólubdoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μολῠ́βδαινᾰ (molúbdaina)
- μολῠβδᾰ́νθρωπος (molubdánthrōpos)
- μολῠ́βδεος (molúbdeos)
- μολῠβδῐᾰ́ω (molubdiáō)
- μολῠβδῐ́ζω (molubdízō)
- μολῠβδῐκός (molubdikós)
- μολῠ́βδῐνος (molúbdinos)
- μολῠ́βδῐον (molúbdion)
- μολῠβδῐ́ς (molubdís)
- μολῠβδῖτῐς (molubdîtis)
- μολῠβδόδετος (molubdódetos)
- μολῠβδοειδής (molubdoeidḗs)
- μολῠβδοκόπος (molubdokópos)
- μολῠβδοτήξ (molubdotḗx)
- μολῠβδουργός (molubdourgós)
- μολῠβδοφᾰνής (molubdophanḗs)
- μολῠβδόχᾰλκος (molubdókhalkos)
- μολῠβδοχοέω (molubdokhoéō)
- μολῠβδόω (molubdóō)
- μολῠβδώδης (molubdṓdēs)
- μολῠ́βδωμᾰ (molúbdōma)
- μολῠ́βδωσῐς (molúbdōsis)
- χᾰλκομόλῠβδος (khalkomólubdos)
See also
- Latin: plumbum
References
- 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
- “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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- lead idem, page 481.
Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos), of Anatolian origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merkʷ- (“dark”). See also μολύβι (molývi).
Noun
μόλυβδος • (mólyvdos) m (uncountable)
- (chemistry, metallurgy) lead
Declension
μόλυβδος
case \\ number | singular |
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nominative | μόλυβδος • |
genitive | μολύβδου • |
accusative | μόλυβδο • |
vocative | μόλυβδε • |
Coordinate terms
- Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements
- μολύβι n (molývi, “pencil”)
- μολυβδαίνιο n (molyvdaínio, “molybdenum”)
Derived terms
- αμόλυβδος (amólyvdos, “unleaded”)
Further reading
μόλυβδος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el