ψευδάργυρος

From ψευδο- (pseudo-, “false”) +‎ ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”).

ψευδᾰ́ργῠρος • (pseudắrgŭros) m (genitive ψευδᾰργῠ́ρου); second declension (Koine)

1. mock silver, false silver, perhaps zinc
   • c. 23 CE, Strabo, chapter 1.56, in Γεωγραφικά, volume XIII:

     λίθος περὶ τὰ Ἄνδειρα͵ ὃς καιόμενος σίδηρος γίνεται· εἶτα μετὰ γῆς τινος καμινευθεὶς ἀποστάζει ψευδάργυρον͵ ἣ προσλαβοῦσα χαλκὸν τὸ καλούμενον γίνεται κρᾶμα͵ ὅ τινες ὀρείχαλκον καλοῦσι

     a stone in the vicinity of Andeira which, when burned becomes iron, and then, when heated in a furnace with a certain earth, distils false silver; and this, with the addition of copper, makes the so-called "mixture" (alloy), which by some is called "orichalcum"

• Greek: ψευδάργυρος (psevdárgyros)

• “ψευδάργυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ψευδάργυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Learned diachronic borrowing from Koine Greek ψευδάργυρος (pseudárguros),^[1] based on the identification of the latter as zinc (see Strabo XIII, 1.56, p. 610). Morphologically, ψευδ- (psevd-, “false”) +‎ άργυρος (árgyros, “silver”).

• IPA^(key): /pseˈvðaɾ.ʝi.ɾos/
• Hyphenation: ψευ‧δάρ‧γυ‧ρος

ψευδάργυρος • (psevdárgyros) m (plural ψευδάργυροι)

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) zinc

   Synonym: τσίγκος (tsígkos) (informal)

Second forms are formal. Usually in the singular.

• Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements

• ψευδάργυρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el