ἐλεφάντινος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐλέφας (eléphas, “elephant”) + -ινος (-inos, “-ine”).
Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀩𐀞𐀳𐀃 (e-re-pa-te-o), 𐀁𐀩𐀞𐀳𐀍 (e-re-pa-te-jo, “made of ivory”) formed with -εῖος (-eîos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.le.pʰán.ti.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.leˈpʰan.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
First and second declension of ἐλεφάντινος; ἐλεφαντίνη; ἐλεφάντινον (Attic)
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 (2006–2023)
- G1661 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ivory idem, page 461.