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ἐλέφᾱς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλέφᾱς ἐλέφαντος

Structure: ἐλεφαντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. ivory
  2. elephant

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐλέφᾱς ἐλέφαντε ἐλέφαντες
Genitive ἐλέφαντος ἐλεφάντοιν ἐλεφάντων
Dative ἐλέφαντι ἐλεφάντοιν ἐλέφᾱσιν*
Accusative ἐλέφαντα ἐλέφαντε ἐλέφαντας
Vocative ἐλέφαν ἐλέφαντε ἐλέφαντες

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

  • ἐμὲ γοῦν ποτε καὶ αὐτὸν οὐχ ἧττον ἢ σὲ νῦν ἐξέπληττε μὲν χρυσὸσ ὡσ κτῆμα τῶν ἄλλων οὐδενὶ παραβλητὸν ᾕρει δ’ ἄργυροσ καὶ ἐλέφασ· (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 6 6:1)
  • θυμόσοφον γὰρ εἴπερ τι ἄλλο θηρίον ἐλέφασ, καί τινεσ ἤδη αὐτῶν τοὺσ ἀμβάτασ σφῶν ἐν πολέμῳ ἀποθανόντασ ἄραντεσ αὐτοὶ ἐξήνεγκαν ἐσ ταφήν, οἳ δὲ καὶ ὑπερήσπισαν κειμένουσ, οἳ δὲ καὶ πεσόντων προεκινδύνευσαν, ὃ δέ τισ πρὸσ ὀργὴν ἀποκτείνασ τὸν ἀμβάτην ὑπὸ μετανοίησ τε καὶ ἀθυμίησ ἀπέθανεν. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 14 4:1)
  • βαίνεται δὲ ἐλέφασ ἦροσ ὡρ́ῃ, κατάπερ βοῦσ ἢ ἵπποσ, ἐπεὰν τῇσι θηλέῃσιν αἱ παρὰ τοῖσι κροτάφοισιν ἀναπνοαὶ ἀνοιχθεῖσαι ἐκπνέωσι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 14 7:1)
  • βασιλικὸν γὰρ ὄχημα ὁ ἐλέφασ παῤ Ἰνδοῖσίν ἐστι, δεύτερον δὲ τιμῇ τὰ τέθριππα, τρίτον δὲ αἱ κάμηλοι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 17 2:1)
  • πῶσ γὰρ ἤλεκτρον καὶ ἄργυροσ καὶ ἐλέφασ ἐν τοῖσ τοίχοισ ἦν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 14 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. elephant

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