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λόφος

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λόφος λόφου

Structure: λοφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the back of the neck, rubs it, the mane, the nape of the neck, the neck
  2. the crest of a hill, a ridge
  3. the crest
  4. the crest on the head, comb
  5. the tuft of hair

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ τόποσ καὶ πεδίον ἦν τῇ φάλαγγι βάσεωσ ἐπιπέδου καὶ χωρίων ὁμαλῶν δεομένῃ, καὶ λόφοι συνεχεῖσ ἄλλοσ ἐξ ἄλλου τοῖσ γυμνητεύουσι καὶ ψιλοῖσ ἀναφυγὰσ καὶ περιδρομὰσ ἔχοντεσ, διὰ μέσου δὲ ποταμοὶ ῥέοντεσ Αἴσων καὶ Λεῦκοσ οὐ μάλα βαθεῖσ τότε ̔θέρουσ γὰρ ἦν ὡρ́α φθίνοντοσ’ ἐδόκουν τινὰ δυσεργίαν ὅμωσ τοῖσ Ῥωμαίοισ παρέξειν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 16 5:1)
  • ἔκειντο δὲ ἐν μέσῳ καὶ μεγάλοι καὶ μικροὶ ἰχθύεσ καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ θηρία συγκεκομμένα, καὶ πλοίων ἱστία καὶ ἄγκυραι, καὶ ἀνθρώπων ὀστέα καὶ φορτία, κατὰ μέσον δὲ καὶ γῆ καὶ λόφοι ἦσαν, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν, ἐκ τῆσ ἰλύοσ ἣν κατέπινε συνιζάνουσα. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 31:2)
  • πᾶσα δ’ Ἄρῃ κεκόσμηται στέγη λαμπραῖσιν κυνίαισι, κὰτ τᾶν λευκοὶ καθύπερθεν ἵππιοι λόφοι νεύουσιν, κεφαλαῖσιν ἀνδρῶν ἀγάλματα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 23 2:2)
  • λόφοι δὲ κώδων τ’ οὐ δάκνουσ’ ἄνευ δορόσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode16)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ χαλκείασ κόρυθασ κεφαλῇσιν ἔθεντο δεινὸν λαμπομένασ, ἐπὶ δὲ λόφοι ἐσσείοντο φοινίκεοι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 18:3)

Synonyms

  1. the back of the neck

    • ἰνίον (the muscle at the back of the neck, the nape of the neck)
  2. the crest of a hill

  3. the crest

Related

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

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