different between elephas vs greatest

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?t?st/
• Hyphenation: great?est
• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

greatest

1. superlative form of great: most great
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     Caliban: […] I never saw a woman / But only Sycorax, my dam, and she; / But she as far surpasseth Sycorax / As great'st does least.

Related terms

• great
• greater