Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /eléɸas/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eléfas/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eléfas/

Noun

ἐλέφᾱς • ‎(eléphās) m ‎(genitive ἐλέφαντος); third declension

1. ivory
2. elephant

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἐλεφαντίνη ‎(Elephantínē)

Descendants

• English:
  • New English: elephant
  • Middle English: olifaunt
• Esperanto: elefanto
• French: éléphant
• German: Elefant
• Greek: ελέφας ‎(eléfas); ελέφαντας ‎(eléfantas)
• Icelandic úlfaldi
• Ido: elefanto
• Italian: elefante
• Latin: elephas; elephans; elephantus
• Vulgar Latin: olifantus
• Volapük: leefad

References

• ἐλέφας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐλέφας in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐλέφας in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἐλέφας» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἐλέφας» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἐλέφας» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 265