The corpus record

γεώ-λοφος

geolophos

crested with earth

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What it meant — LSJ

crested with earth

crested with earth, ὄρη Str. 16.2.16; χωρία Id. 12.7.1.

II hill, hillock

Subst. γεώλοφος, ὁ, hill, hillock, X. Cyr. 3.3.28 codd., Plb. 1.75.4, Ph. 1.191; γεώλοφον, τό, Theoc. 1.13, Numen. ap. Ath. 7.305a.

2 boor, clod-hopper

γεώλοφος, ὁ, boor, clod-hopper, Ael.Dion. Fr. 107.

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.

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