μολύβδαινα
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mo.lýb.dai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /moˈlyb.dɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /moˈlyβ.ðɛ.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /moˈlyv.ðe.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /moˈliv.ðe.na/
Noun
μολῠ́βδαινᾰ • (molúbdaina) f (genitive μολῠ́βδαίνης); first declension
- 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
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μολῠ́βδαινᾰ hē molúbdaina |
τὼ μολῠβδαίνᾱ tṑ molubdaínā |
αἱ μολῠ́βδαιναι hai molúbdainai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μολῠβδαίνης tês molubdaínēs |
τοῖν μολῠβδαίναιν toîn molubdaínain |
τῶν μολῠβδαινῶν tôn molubdainôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μολῠβδαίνῃ têi molubdaínēi |
τοῖν μολῠβδαίναιν toîn molubdaínain |
ταῖς μολῠβδαίναις taîs molubdaínais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μολῠ́βδαινᾰν tḕn molúbdainan |
τὼ μολῠβδαίνᾱ tṑ molubdaínā |
τᾱ̀ς μολῠβδαίνᾱς tā̀s molubdaínās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μολῠ́βδαινᾰ molúbdaina |
μολῠβδαίνᾱ molubdaínā |
μολῠ́βδαιναι molúbdainai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: molybdaena
Further reading
- “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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