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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 οὖν οὐχὶ καὶ σύ, ὦ Ἀθηνᾶ, τὴν κόρυν ἀφελοῦσα ψιλὴν τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπιδεικνύεισ, ἀλλ’ ἐπισείεισ τὸν λόφον καὶ τὸν δικαστὴν φοβεῖσ; (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 10:5)
  • οὕτωσ ὑμᾶσ ἡ εἰρήνη διατέθεικε βαθεῖα οὖσα, ὡσ μὴ ἂν ῥᾳδίωσ ἀνασχέσθαι λόφον ἕνα κράνουσ πολεμίου ἰδόντασ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 33:5)
  • ἀφεθέντα δὲ ὡσ ἀφείθη τὸν Ἄρη ἀγανακτῆσαι κατὰ τοῦ Ἀλεκτρυόνοσ καὶ μεταβαλεῖν αὐτὸν εἰσ τουτὶ τὸ ὄρνεον αὐτοῖσ ὅπλοισ, ὡσ ἔτι τοῦ κράνουσ τὸν λόφον ἔχειν ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 3:10)
  • ὁπόταν γοῦν ἐντεινάμενοσ τὸ τόξον ἰώ ἐπ̓ αὐτήν, ἐπισείουσα τὸν λόφον ἐκπλήττει με καὶ ὑπότρομοσ γίνομαι καὶ ἀπορρεῖ μου τὰ τοξεύματα ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:3)
  • τολμήσασ δ̓ ὅμωσ καὶ τοὺσ ἑταίρουσ ἐπιλαμβανομένουσ ἀποσεισάμενοσ, ἐδεδοίκεσαν γὰρ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ὁρῶντεσ ἀποστίλβοντα μὲν τὸν βάρβαρον ἐπιχρύσοισ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ, μέγαν δὲ καὶ φοβερὸν ὄντα τὸν λόφον καὶ κραδαίνοντα τὴν λόγχην. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:6)

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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