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ἐλάφου (elaphou)

ἐλάφου is an Ancient Greek form of ἔλαφος, meaning “deer”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 47.3: εἰώθει δὲ λέγειν ὅτι φοβερώτερόν ἐστιν ἐλάφων στρατόπεδον ἡγουμένου λέοντος ἢ λεόντων ἐλάφου.

All forms of ἔλαφος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.