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μόλυβδος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μόλυβδος μολύβδου

Structure: μολυβδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = mo/libos

Sense

  1. lead (the metal)
  2. graphite

Declension

Second declension

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

  • ὑπὲρ μόλυβδον τί βαρυνθήσεται̣ καὶ τί αὐτῷ ὄνομα ἀλλ̓ ἢ μωρόσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 22:12)
  • ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἐπικεκλημένου Θεοῦ Ἰσραήλ, συνήγαγεσ ὡσ κασσίτερον τὸ χρυσίον καὶ ὡσ μόλυβδον ἐπλήθυνασ ἀργύριον. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 47:18)
  • Πυθοκλῆσ Ἀθηναῖοσ Ἀθηναίοισ συνεβούλευσε τὸν μόλυβδον τὸν ἐκ τῶν Λαυρίων παραλαμβάνειν παρὰ τῶν ἰδιωτῶν τὴν πόλιν, ὥσπερ ἐπώλουν, δίδραχμον, εἶτα τάξαντασ αὐτοὺσ τιμὴν ἑξαδράχμου οὕτω πωλεῖν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 129:1)
  • μόλυβδον ἐσ τουτὶ τὸ κοῖλον ἐγχέασ ἔπειτ’ ἄνωθεν ῥάβδον ἐνθεὶσ ὑπόμακρον, γενήσεταί σοι τῶν κατακτῶν κοττάβων. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode 1:14)
  • τὸν μὲν μόλυβδον, ὥσπερ εἶπον, ἔγχεον, ἐντευθενὶ δὲ σπαρτίοισ ἠρτημένην πλάστιγγα πρόσθεσ, καὐτό σοι γενήσεται τὰ σῦκ’ ἐν ἀγρῷ τοῖσ οἰκέταισιν ἱστάναι. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode 1:17)

Synonyms

  1. lead

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