ἐλέφας: Difference between revisions

|Definition=αντος, ὁ (<b class="b3">θήλεια ἐ</b>. <span class="bibl">Phylarch.36J.</span>): irreg. gen. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ἐλεφάντου <span class="title">BCH</span>35.286(Delos, ii B.C.): dat. pl. -τοις <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ma.</span>1.17</span> (v.l.):—[[elephant]], first mentioned by Hdt. as a native of Africa, <span class="bibl">3.114</span>,<span class="bibl">4.191</span>; ἐλέφαντος ὀδόντες <span class="bibl">Id.3.97</span>; of the Indian [[elephant]], first in <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Cael.</span>298a13</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HA</span>610a15</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Paus.1.12.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> in Hom. only of <b class="b2">elephant's tusk, ivory</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.5.583</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>141</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.27</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>373a</span>, <span class="title">GDI</span>5500, etc.: Aeol. ἐλέφαις <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>20a10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> = [[ἐλεφαντίασις]], <span class="bibl">Aret.<span class="title">SD</span>2.13</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>3.1423, Gal.15.331. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> a <b class="b2">precious stone</b>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>37</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> a kind of [[cup]], <span class="bibl">Damox.1.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> = [[ἐλεφάντωσις]], Apul.<span class="title">Herb.</span>36.</span>

|etymtx=-αντος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">ivory, elefant-tooth</b> (Il.; cf. Treu Philol. 99, 149ff.), [[elefant]] (Hdt.), also as the name of a disease = <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντίασις</b>, s. Strömberg Theophrastea 193.<br />Dialectal forms: Myk. <b class="b2">e-re-pa</b>, <b class="b2">-to</b>, <b class="b2">-te</b> \/[[elephas]]\/ etc.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in both meanings, <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντό-πους</b> <b class="b2">with ivory feet</b> (Pl. Com.), ἐλέφας <b class="b3">-μάχος</b> <b class="b2">fighting elephants</b> (Str.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντίσκιον</b> <b class="b2">young elephant</b> (Ael.); adj. <b class="b3">ἐλεφάντινος</b> <b class="b2">of ivory</b> (Alc., Att.), <b class="b3">-ίνεος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (inscr.; on the formation Chantr. Form. 203), <b class="b3">ἐλεφάντ-ειος</b> [[belonging to an elephant]] (Dsc., Opp.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">elephant-like</b> (Mediz.), <b class="b3">-ιωδής</b> <b class="b2">suffering from eleph.</b> (medic.); subst. <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντιστής</b> <b class="b2">elephant-driver</b> (Arist.), also <b class="b2">shield from elephant-skin</b> (App.; example?), <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντεύς</b> <b class="b2">ivory-worker</b> (pap.). Denomin. <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντ-ιάω</b> <b class="b2">suffer from eleph.</b> (Phld., medic.) with <b class="b3">-ίασις</b>, also <b class="b3">-ιασμός</b> (EM); <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">with ivory inlays</b> with <b class="b3">-ωτός</b> (nscr.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Egypt.<br />Etymology: Like Lat. [[ebur]] <b class="b3">ἐλέφας</b> is a foreigm word. The final (except the <b class="b3">ντ-</b>suffix) recalls like Lat. <b class="b2">eb-ur</b> an Egypt. <b class="b2">āb(u</b>), Copt. <b class="b3">εβ(ο)υ</b> [[elephant]], [[ivory]], Skt. <b class="b2">íbha-</b> [[elephant]]; the begin recurs in Hamit. <b class="b2">eḷu</b> [[elephant]] (from where through Egypt. [<b class="b2">p-</b> Art.] Pers. [[pīl]], Arab. [[fīl]]); details remain unclear. - From <b class="b3">ἐλέφας</b> Lat. [[elephās]], [[elephantus]], from there the Germanic and Romance forms. W.-Hofmann s. [[ebur]], Lokotsch Et. Wb. d. europ. Wörter orient. Ursprungs Nr. 605, Mayrhofer Wb. s. <b class="b2">íbhaḥ</b>2, Feist Vgl. Wb. d. got. Spr. s. ulbandus. - Wrong Kretschmer WienAkAnz. 1951 : 21, 307ff.: to <b class="b3">ἐλεφαίρομαι</b> as "destroyer" (orig. connected with the Mammoth), s. Mayrhofer Stud. z. idg. Grundsprache 44f.