μολύβδαινα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”) +‎ -αινᾰ (-aina).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mo.lýb.dai̯.na/ → /moˈlyβ.ðɛ.na/ → /moˈliv.ðe.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mo.lýb.dai̯.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /moˈlyb.dɛ.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /moˈlyβ.ðɛ.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /moˈlyv.ðe.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /moˈliv.ðe.na/

Noun

μολῠ́βδαινᾰ • (molúbdaina) f (genitive μολῠ́βδαίνης); first declension

1. piece of lead, used as the sink of a fishing line, a sinker
2. plummet used in a mason's line
3. (mineralogy) galena, lead sulphide
4. leadwort (Plumbago europaea)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μολῠ́βδαινᾰ; τῆς μολῠβδαίνης (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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