different between elephas vs elephant

Latin

Alternative forms

• eleph?ns, elephantus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (eléphas), from Mycenaean Greek ???????????? (e-re-pa) from a compound of Berber *e?u and either Egyptian ?bw,

or Sanskrit ?? (íbha).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.le.p?a?s/, [?????p?ä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.le.fas/, [???l?f?s]

Noun

eleph?s m (genitive elephantis); third declension

1. elephant
2. elephantiasis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Descendants derived from eleph?s, elephantus and eleph?ns all listed here.

• Corsican: elefante
• Italian: elefante
  • ? Sicilian: lifanti (or inherited from Latin)
• Ladin: elefant
• Ligurian: liofante
• Lombard: elefant
• Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
  • Aragonese: elefant, alifant
• Neapolitan: liufante, alifante
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: elefante
  • Mirandese: eilefante
• Old Occitan: elephant
  • Catalan: elefant
  • Occitan: elefant
• Old Portuguese: helefante, elefante, elifante
  • Galician: elefante
  • Portuguese: elefante
    • Papiamentu: elefante
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: elefant
  • Romansch: elefant
• Piedmontese: elefant
• Sardinian: elefante, elefanti
• Sicilian: lifanti (or via Italian)
• Vulgar Latin: *olifantus
  • Old French: olifan, elefant, olifant, oliphant
    • Middle French: olifant
      • French: olifant
        • ? Catalan: olifant
        • ? Finnish: olifantti
        • ? Norwegian: olifant
        • ? Portuguese: olifante
    • Walloon: elefant
    • ? Breton: olifant
    • ? Middle Dutch: olifant
      • Dutch: olifant
        • Afrikaans: olifant
    • ? Middle English: olifant, olifaunt, oliphant, olyphant (from olifan, olifant form)
      • English: oliphant, olifant, olyfaunte, olyphant, oliphaunt
      • ? Cornish: olifans
    • ? Middle English: elefant, elefaunt (from elefan, elefant form)
      • English: elephant
        • ? Welsh: eliffant
        • ? Hawaiian: ?elepani
        • ? Maori: arewhana
      • Scots: elephant
      • ? Manx: elefant
    • ? Old Spanish: elifant, alefant, eleofant
      • Ladino: ??????????? (elefante)
      • Spanish: elefante
        • ? Basque: elefante
        • ? Chol: elefanti
        • ? Cebuano: elepante
        • ? Hiligaynon: elepante
        • ? Classical Nahuatl: elepantli
        • ? Quechua: ilijanti
        • ? Tagalog: elepante
  • ? Gothic: ???????????????????????????????? (ulbandus) (uncertain; one of several theories)
    • ? Slavic: *vel?b(l)?d? (see there for further descendants)
• ? Albanian: elefant
• ? Germanic: *ulbanduz (“camel”) (see there for further descendants)
• ? West Germanic: *elpand (“elephant; ivory”) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Middle French: elephant
  • French: éléphant
    • Haitian Creole: elefan
    • ? Romanian: elefant
  • ? Irish: eilifint
  • ? Norman: êléphant, éléphant
• ? Middle High German: hëlfant
  • Alemannic German: Elifant
  • German: Elefant, Elephant
    • ? Lower Sorbian: elefant
    • ? Saterland Frisian: Elefant
  • Luxembourgish: Elefant
  • Vilamovian: elefaont
  • Yiddish: ?????????? (helfand)

Synonyms

• (elephant): barrus, eleph?ns
• (elephantiasis): elephantiasis, elephantia, elephanticus morbus

See also

• eleph?ns
• elephantus

References

• elephas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• elephas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elephas in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• elephas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eléph?s) (gen. ????????? (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *e?u (“elephant”) (compare Tahaggart Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ?bw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?f?nt/, /??l?f?nt/

Noun

elephant (countable and uncountable, plural elephants)

1. A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
2. (in particular) Any member of the family Elephantidae not also of the genus Mammuthus.
3. (figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
4. (paper, printing) Synonym of elephant paper
5. (Britain, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second

   Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...

6. (uncountable, obsolete) Ivory.

   • He sent rich gifts of elephant and gold.

Synonyms

• (animal): Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana
• (counting term): see Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds

Hyponyms

• (animal): African bush elephant, African forest elephant, Indian elephant, African elephant

Derived terms

Descendants

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• elephant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Elephant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• heptenal

Middle French

Noun

elephant m (plural elephans)

1. elephant (animal)

Descendants

• French: éléphant
  • Haitian Creole: elefan
  • ? Romanian: elefant
• ? Irish: eilifint
• ? Norman: êléphant, éléphant