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μολυβδίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μολυβδίς μολυβδίδος

Structure: μολυβδιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: like molu/bdaina

Sense

  1. a leaden weight
  2. a leaden ball

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μολυβδίς μολυβδίδε μολυβδίδες
Genitive μολυβδίδος μολυβδίδοιν μολυβδίδων
Dative μολυβδίδι μολυβδίδοιν μολυβδίσιν*
Accusative μολυβδίδα μολυβδίδε μολυβδίδας
Vocative μολυβδί μολυβδίδε μολυβδίδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπεράλλεσθαι τάφρον, εἰ δέοι, ἢ εἴ τι ἄλλο ἐμπόδιον, καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο ἀσκοῦνται ἡμῖν, ἔτι καὶ μολυβδίδασ χειροπληθεῖσ ἐν ταῖν χεροῖν ἔχοντεσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 27:3)
  • τοῦτο μέντοι, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, τὸ τῆσ τοιαύτησ φύσεωσ εἰ ἐκ παιδὸσ εὐθὺσ κοπτόμενον περιεκόπη τὰσ τῆσ γενέσεωσ συγγενεῖσ ὥσπερ μολυβδίδασ, αἳ δὴ ἐδωδαῖσ τε καὶ τοιούτων ἡδοναῖσ τε καὶ λιχνείαισ προσφυεῖσ γιγνόμεναι περὶ κάτω στρέφουσι τὴν τῆσ ψυχῆσ ὄψιν· (Plato, Republic, book 7 81:1)

Synonyms

  1. a leaden weight

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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