λόφος

Probably from the same Indo-European source as Tocharian A lap (“head”) and Proto-Slavic *lъbъ (“skull”).[1]

In 1819, Rees thought it to be akin to Old English hlifian (“to raise up, tower, stand out”).[2]

λόφος • (lóphos) m (genitive λόφου); second declension

1. the back of the neck, the withers of a horse, the nape of a man
2. the crest of a hill, a ridge
3. the crest of a helmet
4. (after Homer) the crest or tuft on the head of a bird, be it a crest of feathers or a comb of flesh
5. (of men) a tuft of hair upon the crown
6. (of large fishes) Synonym of λοφιά (lophiá)

• Greek: λόφος (lófos)

• “λόφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λόφος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

From Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.fos/
• Hyphenation: λό‧φος

λόφος • (lófos) m (plural λόφοι)

1. hill

• ύψωμα n (ýpsoma)

• λοφάκι n (lofáki, “hillock”)
• λοφίσκος m (lofískos, “hillock”)