elephas
See also: Elephas
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās), possibly borrowed from Egyptian ꜣbw
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛ.ɫɛ.pʰaːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.le.fas]
Noun
elephās m (genitive elephantis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | elephās | elephantēs |
| genitive | elephantis | elephantum |
| dative | elephantī | elephantibus |
| accusative | elephantem | elephantēs |
| ablative | elephante | elephantibus |
| vocative | elephās | elephantēs |
Synonyms
- (elephant): barrus, elephāns, Lūca bōs
- (elephantiasis): elephantiasis, elephantia, elephanticus morbus
Descendants
Descendants derived from elephās, elephantus and elephāns all listed here.
- Corsican: elefante
- Italian: elefante
- Ladin: elefant
- Ligurian: liofante
- Lombard: elefant
- Old Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: elefant, alifant
- Neapolitan: liufante, alifante
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: elefante
- Mirandese: eilefante
- Old Occitan: elephant
- Old Galician-Portuguese: elefante
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Piedmontese: elefant
- Sardinian: elefante, elefanti
- Sicilian: liafanti
- Vulgar Latin: *olifantus
- Old French: olifan, elefant, olifant, oliphant
- Middle French: olifant
- Walloon: elefant
- → Breton: olifant
- → Middle Dutch: olifant
- → Middle English: olifant, olifaunt, oliphant, oliphaunt, olyphant (from olifan, olifant form)
- → Middle English: elefant, elefaunt (from elefan, elefant form)
- → Middle Irish: elifaint
- → Old Spanish: elifant, alefant, eleofant
- Old French: olifan, elefant, olifant, oliphant
- → Albanian: elefant
- → Proto-Germanic: *ulbanduz (“camel”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *elpand (“elephant; ivory”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle French: elephant
- → Chukchi: эʼԓыпын (ėʼḷypyn)
- → Danish: elefant
- → Estonian: elevant
- → Finnish: elefantti
- → Hungarian: elefánt
- → Malagasy: elefanta
- → Mezquital Otomi: elefante
- → Mukulu: 'elbi ?
- → Northern Sami: elefánta
- → Norwegian: elefant
- → Samoan: 'elefane
- → Scottish Gaelic: ailbhean
- → Upper Sorbian: elefant
- → Swedish: elefant
- → Tagalog: elepante
- → Võro: elevant'
- → West Frisian: oaljefant
- → Latvian: elefants
- → Faroese: elefantur
- → Low German: Elefant
- → Chamorro: elifante
- → Inuktitut: alipa
- → Limburgish: Olifante
- → Tuvaluan: elefane
- → Quechua: eliphanti
- → Latgalian: elefants
- → Silesian: elefant
See also
References
- "elephas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “elephas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “elephas”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “elephas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin