The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλόφος“crest”
- New Latin · borrowed fromlophosteon
- English todaylophosteon
From New Latin lophosteon, from Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλόφος all →
lophlopho-lophobranchlophulid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.