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μόλυβδος

μόλυβδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • μόλιβος (mólibos)

Noun

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

  1. lead (the metal)
  2. graphite

Inflection

Related terms

  • μολύβδαινα (molúbdaina)
  • μολυβδίς (molubdís)

See also

References

  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

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