The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμόλυβδος“lead”
- English todaymolybdomancy
From Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”) and the suffix -mancy. Probably after Greek μολυβδομαντεία (molyvdomanteía) or French molybdomancie.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμόλυβδος all →
molybdophyllite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.