μολύβδαινα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”) + -
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mo.lýb.dai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /moˈlyb.dɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /moˈly
β .ðɛ.na/ - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /moˈlyv.ðe.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /moˈliv.ðe.na/
Noun
[edit]- piece of lead, used as the sink of a fishing line, a sinker
- plummet used in a mason's line
- (mineralogy) galena, lead sulphide
- leadwort (Plumbago europaea)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ hē molúbdaina |
tṑ molubdaínā |
hai molúbdainai | ||||||||||
Genitive | tês molubdaínēs |
toîn molubdaínain |
tôn molubdainôn | ||||||||||
Dative | têi molubdaínēi |
toîn molubdaínain |
taîs molubdaínais | ||||||||||
Accusative | tḕn molúbdainan |
tṑ molubdaínā |
tā̀s molubdaínās | ||||||||||
Vocative | molúbdaina |
molubdaínā |
molúbdainai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: molybdaena
Further reading
[edit]- “μολύβδαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μολύβδαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μολύβδαινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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