ἐλεφάντινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐλέφας (eléphas, “elephant”) +‎ -ινος (-inos, “-ine”).

Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀩𐀞𐀳𐀃 (e-re-pa-te-o), 𐀁𐀩𐀞𐀳𐀍 (e-re-pa-te-jo, “made of ivory”) formed with -εῖος (-eîos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.le.pʰán.ti.nos/ → /e.leˈɸan.ti.nos/ → /e.leˈfan.di.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.le.pʰán.ti.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.leˈpʰan.ti.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.leˈɸan.ti.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.leˈfan.ti.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.leˈfan.di.nos/

Adjective

ἐλεφάντινος • (elephántinos) m (feminine ἐλεφαντίνη, neuter ἐλεφάντινον); first/second declension

1. ivory (attributive); made of ivory

Declension

First and second declension of ἐλεφάντινος; ἐλεφαντίνη; ἐλεφάντινον (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἐλεφάντινος elephántinos	ἐλεφαντίνη elephantínē	ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon		ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō	ἐλεφαντίνᾱ elephantínā	ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō		ἐλεφάντινοι elephántinoi	ἐλεφάντιναι elephántinai	ἐλεφάντινᾰ elephántina
Genitive		ἐλεφαντίνου elephantínou	ἐλεφαντίνης elephantínēs	ἐλεφαντίνου elephantínou		ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin	ἐλεφαντίναιν elephantínain	ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin		ἐλεφαντίνων elephantínōn	ἐλεφαντίνων elephantínōn	ἐλεφαντίνων elephantínōn
Dative		ἐλεφαντίνῳ elephantínōi	ἐλεφαντίνῃ elephantínēi	ἐλεφαντίνῳ elephantínōi		ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin	ἐλεφαντίναιν elephantínain	ἐλεφαντίνοιν elephantínoin		ἐλεφαντίνοις elephantínois	ἐλεφαντίναις elephantínais	ἐλεφαντίνοις elephantínois
Accusative		ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon	ἐλεφαντίνην elephantínēn	ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon		ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō	ἐλεφαντίνᾱ elephantínā	ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō		ἐλεφαντίνους elephantínous	ἐλεφαντίνᾱς elephantínās	ἐλεφάντινᾰ elephántina
Vocative		ἐλεφάντινε elephántine	ἐλεφαντίνη elephantínē	ἐλεφάντινον elephántinon		ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō	ἐλεφαντίνᾱ elephantínā	ἐλεφαντίνω elephantínō		ἐλεφάντινοι elephántinoi	ἐλεφάντιναι elephántinai	ἐλεφάντινᾰ elephántina
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἐλεφαντίνως elephantínōs				ἐλεφαντινότερος elephantinóteros				ἐλεφαντινότᾰτος elephantinótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἐλεφάντινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐλεφάντινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐλεφάντινος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐλεφάντινος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1661 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ivory idem, page 461.