μόλυβδος

• βόλιβος (bólibos), μόλιβος (mólibos)

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀗𐀪𐀺𐀈 (mo-ri-wo-do), from an Anatolian word cognate with Lydian 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠 (mariwda, “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *morgʷ-iyo-, from a root *mergʷ- (“dark”),^[1][2][3] whence also English murky, Albanian marrtë (“dim as twilight; blurry”). Probably not cognate with Latin plumbum (“lead”), despite superficial similarity.

μόλυβδος • (mólubdos) m (genitive μολύβδου); second declension

1. lead (the metal)
2. graphite

• Latin: plumbum

• “μόλυβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μόλυβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μόλυβδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lead idem, page 481.
• “μόλυβδος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos), of Anatolian origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merkʷ- (“dark”). See also μολύβι (molývi).

μόλυβδος • (mólyvdos) m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) lead

• Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements
• μολύβι n (molývi, “pencil”)
• μολυβδαίνιο n (molyvdaínio, “molybdenum”)

• αμόλυβδος (amólyvdos, “unleaded”)

• μόλυβδος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el