λοφιά
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
English (LSJ)
Ion. λοφ-ῐή, ἡ, (λόφος)
A mane or bristly ridge on the back of animals, mane of horses, bristly back of boars and hyenas (cf. Arist.PA658a30, HA 498b30, 579b16), φρίξας εὖ λοφιήν, of a wild boar, Od.19.446; ὀρθὰς ἐν λοφιῇ φρίσσει τρίχας ἀμφί τε δειρήν Hes.Sc.391; ἀντὶ λόφου ἡ λοφιὴ κατέχρα the mane served for a plume, Hdt.7.70, cf. 2.71. 2 backfin of dolphins and similar fishes, D.S.3.41, AP9.222 (Antiphil.), Philostr.Im.1.19. II = λόφος 11, ridge, LXX Jo.15.2, al., AP9.249 (Maec.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λοφῐά: Ἰων. -ιή, ἡ, (λόφος) ἡ χαίτη ἢ ἡ τριχοφόρος ῥάχις τῶν χοίρων καὶ ὑαινῶν (πρβλ. Ἀριστ. π. Ζ. Μορ. 2. 14, 4, π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 2, 1, 19., 6. 32, 1), φρίξας εὖ λοφιήν, ἐπὶ ἀγρίου χοίρου, Ὀδ. Τ. 446· οὕτω, ὀρθὰς ἐν λοφιῇ φρίσσει τρίχας ἀμφί τε δειρὴν Ἡσ. Ἀσπ. Ἡρ. 391· ἀντὶ λόφου ἡ λοφιὴ κατέχρα, ἡ χαίτη ἐχρησίμευεν ἀντὶ λόφου, Ἡρόδ. 7. 70, πρβλ. 2. 71. 2) τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ πτερυγίου τῆς ῥάχεως τῶν δελφίνων καὶ ὁμοίων ἰχθύων, Διόδ. 3. 41, Φιλόστρ. 793, Ἀνθ. Π. 9. 222. ΙΙ. = λόφος, αὐτόθι 249, Ἑβδ. (Ἰησ. Ν. ΙΕ΄, 2, κ. ἀλλ.).
French (Bailly abrégé)
ᾶς (ἡ) :
I. 1 cou garni d’une crinière, de longs poils, de soies;
2 p. ext. crinière, longs poils, soies;
3 p. anal. nageoires du dos d’un poisson;
4 dos d’un animal;
II. fig. colline.
Étymologie: λόφος.
