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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

  • ἐκεῖναι γὰρ διὰ τὸ χειροπληθέσι τοῖσ λίθοισ σφενδονᾶν ἐπὶ βραχὺ ἐξικνοῦνται, οἱ δὲ Ῥόδιοι καὶ ταῖσ μολυβδίσιν ἐπίστανται χρῆσθαι. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 19:1)

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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