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elephantorum

elephantorum is a Latin form of elephantus, meaning “elephant; ivory”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.151: … eleritas atque vis nobis ipsis adfert vim et celeritatem. nos onera quibusdam bestiis nos iuga inponimus; nos elephantorum acutissumis sensibus nos sagacitate canum ad utilitatem nostram abutimur; nos e terrae cavernis ferrum elicim …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 14.90.4: … ssima vehementissima. Non praecedit armenta degener taurus, sed qui magnitudine ac toris ceteros mares vicit. Elephantorum gregem excelsissimus ducit; inter homines pro summo est optimum. Animo itaque rector eligebatur, ideoque summ …

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.