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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

  • τὴν δὲ προστασίαν καὶ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν τῶν ἐν αὐταῖσ γινομένων θυσιῶν τε καὶ ἀγώνων οἱ τῶν δημάρχων ὑπηρέται παρέλαβον, οἱ τὴν νῦν ἀγορανομικὴν ἔχοντεσ ἐξουσίαν, ὥσπερ ἔφην, κοσμηθέντεσ ὑπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ πορφύρᾳ καὶ θρόνῳ ἐλεφαντίνῳ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἐπισήμοισ, οἷσ εἶχον οἱ βασιλεῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 95 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. ivory

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