elephanti

elephanti is a Latin form of elephantus, meaning “elephant; ivory”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun or genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 27: … iris desidero adulescentis, is enim erat locus alter de vitiis senectutis, non plus quam adulescens tauri aut elephanti desiderabam. quod est, eo decet uti et quidquid agis agere pro viribus. quae enim vox potest esse contemptior …

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 53: … vident, fugam faciunt, ac plerique abiectis armis collis aut noctis, quae iam aderat, auxilio integri abeunt. Elephanti quattuor capti, relicui omnes numero quadraginta interfecti. At Romani, quamquam itinere atque opere castroru …

All forms of elephantus (declension table)

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