ἐλέφαντες (elephantes)

ἐλέφαντες is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλέφας, meaning “elephant, ivory”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 15.5: ἅμα δὲ οἵ τε Μεσσάπιοι, καθʼ οὓς ἐξεβράσθη, συνέθεον βοηθοῦντες ἐκ τῶν παρόντων προθύμως, καὶ προσεφέροντο τῶν σῳζομένων ἔνιαι νεῶν, ἐν αἷς ἦσαν ἱππεῖς μὲν ὀλίγοι παντάπασι πεζοὶ δὲ δισχιλίων ἐλάττους, ἐλέφαντες δὲ δύο.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.21.4: … δὲ ἐνταῦθα τοῦ νεκροῦ μνῆμα καὶ τοῦτο ἂν εὕροι τις, ἐν ᾧ τά τε ἄλλα ὅσοις ὁ Πύρρος ἐχρῆτο ἐς τὰς μάχας καὶ οἱ ἐλέφαντές εἰσιν ἐπειργασμένοι. τοῦτο μὲν δὴ κατὰ τὴν πυρὰν τὸ οἰκοδόμημα ἐγένετο· αὐτὰ δὲ κεῖται τοῦ Πύρρου τὰ ὀστᾶ ἐν …

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.