λέπας

The similarity with Latin lapis (“stone”) is hardly accidental; a Mediterranean substrate borrowing is most probable, perhaps through Pre-Greek.

λέπας • (lépas) n (indeclinable)

1. bare rock, scaur, crag

• “λέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
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• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “λέπας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 848