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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

  • τί δῆτα τουτοινὶ καταθῶ σοι τοῖν λόφοιν; (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode20)

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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