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λοφιά

First declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοφιά

Etym.: lo/fos

Sense

  1. the mane, the mane, the bristly back
  2. the back-fin

Examples

  • γνωρίζεσθαι δ’ ἐκ τοῦ πρὸσ τῇ πρώτῃ λοφιᾷ ἔχειν κέντρον τῶν ὁμοειδῶν οὐκ ἐχόντων οὔτε δὲ στέαρ οὔτε πιμελὴν ἔχειν τοὺσ ἰχθῦσ τούτουσ διὰ τὸ χονδρώδεισ εἶναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 43 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. the back-fin

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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