hill, mound
= γεώλοφος, hill, X. An. 1.5.8, Pl. Criti. 113d; γ. χειροποίητος artificial mound, Jul. Or. 2.63b; γήλοφον, τό, J. BJ 1.21.10: as Adj., Gp. 3.1.9; (in Dor. form) γαλόφῳ πρῶνι Limen. 12.
The corpus record
γήλοφος
gelophos · ὁ
hill, mound
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Where it lives
- Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
- Anabasis 8 · 1.42/10k
- Hellenica 6 · 0.91/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- γηλόφους · gēlophous Plato, Critias 111
- γήλοφον · gēlophon Plato, Critias 113
- γήλοφος · gēlophos Xenophon, Anabasis 1.10.12 (DIORISIS sentence 585)
- γηλόφου · gēlophou Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.8 (DIORISIS sentence 314)
- γηλόφων · gēlophōn Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.24 (DIORISIS sentence 1380)
- γήλοφον · gēlophon Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.25 (DIORISIS sentence 1382)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.