ἐλεφάντινος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐλέφας (eléphas, “elephant”) + -ινος (-inos, “-ine”).
Compare Mycenaean Greek [script needed] (e-re-pa-te-o, “made of ivory”), [script needed] (e-re-pa-te-jo) formed with -εῖος (-eîos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.le.pʰán.ti.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɛ.lɛˈpʰan.ti.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.leˈɸan.ti.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.leˈfan.ti.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.leˈfan.di.nos/
Adjective
ἐλεφάντινος • (elephántinos) m (feminine ἐλεφαντίνη, neuter ἐλεφάντινον); first/second declension
- ivory (attributive); made of ivory
Declension
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ἐλεφάντινος elephántinos |
ἐλεφαντίνη elephantínē |
ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon |
ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō |
ἐλεφαντίνᾱ elephantínā |
ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō |
ἐλεφάντινοι elephántinoi |
ἐλεφάντιναι elephántinai |
ἐλεφάντινᾰ elephántina | |||||
Genitive | ἐλεφαντίνου elephantínou |
ἐλεφαντίνης elephantínēs |
ἐλεφαντίνου elephantínou |
ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin |
ἐλεφαντίναιν elephantínain |
ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin |
ἐλεφαντίνων elephantínōn |
ἐλεφαντίνων elephantínōn |
ἐλεφαντίνων elephantínōn | |||||
Dative | ἐλεφαντίνῳ elephantínōi |
ἐλεφαντίνῃ elephantínēi |
ἐλεφαντίνῳ elephantínōi |
ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin |
ἐλεφαντίναιν elephantínain |
ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin |
ἐλεφαντίνοις elephantínois |
ἐλεφαντίναις elephantínais |
ἐλεφαντίνοις elephantínois | |||||
Accusative | ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon |
ἐλεφαντίνην elephantínēn |
ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon |
ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō |
ἐλεφαντίνᾱ elephantínā |
ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō |
ἐλεφαντίνους elephantínous |
ἐλεφαντίνᾱς elephantínās |
ἐλεφάντινᾰ elephántina | |||||
Vocative | ἐλεφάντινε elephántine |
ἐλεφαντίνη elephantínē |
ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon |
ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō |
ἐλεφαντίνᾱ elephantínā |
ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō |
ἐλεφάντινοι elephántinoi |
ἐλεφάντιναι elephántinai |
ἐλεφάντινᾰ elephántina | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ἐλεφαντίνως elephantínōs |
ἐλεφαντινότερος elephantinóteros |
ἐλεφαντινότᾰτος elephantinótatos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- ἐλεφάντινος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλεφάντινος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐλεφάντινος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐλεφάντινος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- G1661 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ivory idem, page 461.
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