ἐλέφαντα (elephanta)

ἐλέφαντα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλέφας, meaning “elephant, ivory”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcellus 26.2: … τοῖς πρώτοις γενομένης, εἷς τῶν χιλιάρχων ὄνομα Φλάβιος ἀναρπάσας σημαίαν ὑπηντίαζε καὶ τῷ στύρακι τὸν πρῶτον ἐλέφαντα τύπτων ἀπέστρεφεν.

Strabo, Geography 17.3.6: … ν. τοῦ δὲ κατὰ τὰς στήλας πορθμοῦ τὸ μὲν μῆκος λέγεται σταδίων ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, τὸ δʼ ἐλάχιστον πλάτος κατὰ τὸν Ἐλέφαντα ἑξήκοντα. εἰσπλεύσαντι δʼ ἑξῆς πόλεις τε καὶ ποταμοὶ πλείους μέχρι Μολοχὰθ ποταμοῦ, ὃς ὁρίζει τὴν Μαυρουσίων …

All forms of ἐλέφας (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.