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elephantos

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

Found 65 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.28.1: Tertium est genus eorum, qui uri appellantur. Hi sunt magnitudine paulo infra elephantos, specie et colore et figura tauri.

Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 59: … extenuatos et in longitudinem derectos ut procul simplex esse acies media ab legionariis militibus videretur. Elephantos dextro sinistroque cornu collocaverat aequalibus inter eos intervallis interiectis, post autem elephantos arm …

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.