τραγέλαφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τράγος (trágos, “billy goat”) +‎ ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tra.ɡé.la.pʰos/ → /traˈʝe.la.ɸos/ → /traˈʝe.la.fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tra.ɡé.la.pʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /traˈɡe.la.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /traˈʝe.la.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /traˈʝe.la.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /traˈʝe.la.fos/

Noun

τρᾰγέλᾰφος • (tragélaphos) m (genitive τρᾰγελᾰ́φου); second declension

1. tragelaphus, a fictional animal, half goat, half stag
2. drinking-cup, which had such creature worked in relief
3. thingamabob, whatsaname
4. kind of wild goat or antelope

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τρᾰγέλᾰφος; τοῦ τρᾰγελᾰ́φου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τρᾰγέλᾰφος ho tragélaphos	τὼ τρᾰγελᾰ́φω tṑ trageláphō	οἱ τρᾰγέλᾰφοι hoi tragélaphoi
Genitive	τοῦ τρᾰγελᾰ́φου toû trageláphou	τοῖν τρᾰγελᾰ́φοιν toîn trageláphoin	τῶν τρᾰγελᾰ́φων tôn trageláphōn
Dative	τῷ τρᾰγελᾰ́φῳ tôi trageláphōi	τοῖν τρᾰγελᾰ́φοιν toîn trageláphoin	τοῖς τρᾰγελᾰ́φοις toîs trageláphois
Accusative	τὸν τρᾰγέλᾰφον tòn tragélaphon	τὼ τρᾰγελᾰ́φω tṑ trageláphō	τοὺς τρᾰγελᾰ́φους toùs trageláphous
Vocative	τρᾰγέλᾰφε tragélaphe	τρᾰγελᾰ́φω trageláphō	τρᾰγέλᾰφοι tragélaphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: tragelaphus
• → Translingual: Tragelaphus

Further reading

• “τραγέλαφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τραγέλαφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette