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ἐλέφαντι (elephanti)

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

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.124: ἐν δʼ αὐτοὺς χρυσῷ περικαλλέας ἠδʼ ἐλέφαντι

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 51.22.5: … άγη. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἵππος ὁποῖός ἐστι, πολλοῖς τε εἴρηται καὶ πολὺ πλείοσιν ἑώραται· ὁ δὲ δὴ ῥινόκερως τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἐλέφαντί πῃ προσέοικε, κέρας δέ τι κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ῥῖνα προσέχει, καὶ διὰ

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.