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ἐλεφάντινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεφάντινος ἐλεφαντίνη ἐλεφάντινον

Structure: ἐλεφαντιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)le/fas

Sense

  1. ivory (attributive); made of ivory

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἔστι δὲ λύσαντι μὲν ἔχειν κώμασ τε πολλὰσ καὶ πόλεισ τῶν ἐκείνου, μὴ λύσαντι δ’ ἄστεων τῶν περὶ Ἐλεφαντίνην ἀποστῆναι. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 6 4:4)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ μεγίστη περὶ τὴν Ἐλεφαντίνην ὀκτὼ γίγνεται καὶ εἴκοσι πήχεων, ὅσα φῶτα καὶ μέτρα τῶν ἐμμήνων περιόδων ἑκάστησ ἔστιν ἡ δὲ περὶ Μένδητα καὶ Ξόιν βραχυτάτη πήχεων ἓξ πρὸσ τὴν διχότομον· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 432)
  • τὰ δ’ ἐντόσ, τὴν μὲν ὀροφὴν ἐλεφαντίνην ἰδεῖν πᾶσαν χρυσῷ καὶ ἀργύρῳ καὶ ὀρειχάλκῳ πεποικιλμένην, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα πάντα τῶν τοίχων τε καὶ κιόνων καὶ ἐδάφουσ ὀρειχάλκῳ περιέλαβον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 72:2)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δὲ τοὺσ τυράννουσ μὲν τοὺσ ἐκ τῶν πόλεων ἐσ τὰσ πόλεισ πέμπει χρήσασθαι ὅπωσ ἐθέλοιεν, τοὺσ δὲ ἀμφὶ Ἀπολλωνίδην τοὺσ Χίουσ ἐσ Ἐλεφαντίνην πόλιν Αἰγυπτίαν ξὺν φυλακῇ ἀκριβεῖ ἔπεμψεν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 2 7:2)
  • περὶ δὲ τοῦ Πέλοποσ ἔλεγον ὅτι καὶ τὸν ὦμον ἐλεφάντινον ἔχοι, ὥσπερ τι ὄφελοσ ἀνθρώπου χρυσῆν χεῖρα ἢ ἐλεφαντίνην ἔχοντοσ ἢ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ἀδάμαντοσ ἢ σμαράγδου· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 33:1)

Synonyms

  1. ivory

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