olifante

olifante

1. plural of olifant

From French olifant.

• Hyphenation: o‧li‧fan‧te

olifante m (plural olifantes)

1. Small ivory horn of knights from the Middle Ages

• “olifante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “olifante”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “olifante” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “olifante”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “olifante”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “olifante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• olifán

Borrowed from French olifant.

• IPA^(key): /oliˈfante/ [o.liˈfãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: o‧li‧fan‧te

olifante m (plural olifantes)

1. (music, historical) Small ivory horn of knights from the Middle Ages; an olifant [from mid-19th c.]

• “olifante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “olifante”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN