Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μόλιβος ‎(mólibos)

• (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

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lead idem, page 481.

1. ↑ Ivo Hajnal, Graeco-Anatolian Contacts in the Mycenaean Period (Innsbruck: University of Innsbruck), 6.
2. ↑ 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.

Greek

Noun

μόλυβδος • ‎(mólyvdos) m ‎(uncountable)

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) lead

Declension

Derived terms

• αμόλυβδος ‎(amólyvdos, “unleaded”)

Coordinate terms

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

External links

• μόλυβδος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el