ἔλαφος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ and ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[deer]], [[Cervus elaphus]], whether male, [[hart]] or [[stag]], <span class="bibl">Il.3.24</span>, etc.; or female, [[hind]], <span class="bibl">11.113</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">κεραός, ὑψίκερως</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">475</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.10.158</span>; κεροῦσσα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>89</span>; ἔ. βαλιαί <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>218</span> (anap.); ἔ. ἀντὶ παρθένου <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Ep.</span>785.1</span>; <b class="b3">κραδίην ἐλάφοιο [ἔχων</b>] with heart [[of deer]]. i.e. a coward, <span class="bibl">Il.1.225</span>; φυζακινῇς ἐλάφοισιν ἐοίκεσαν <span class="bibl">13.102</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">La.</span> 196e</span>. (Fem. as a generic term, in Trag. and <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>9.11</span>, <span class="bibl">10.22</span>, cf. αἱ ἔ. τὰ κέρατα ἀποβάλλουσιν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>611a27</span>.) </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">κέρας ἐλάφου</b> [[hart]]shorn, <span class="title">Gp.</span>13.8.2. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[deerskin]], ἐλάφου πήρα <span class="bibl">Longus3.15</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> a kind of [[cake]], <span class="bibl">Ath.14.649e</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> [[figure of a deer]] used as a weight, <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).125 (Tegea, ii A.D.). (<b class="b3">-φος</b> as in <b class="b3">ἔρι-φος</b>, etc., <b class="b3">ἐλα-</b> from [[ἐλ]][[ṇ]]-, cf. [[ἐλλός]] (from <b class="b3">*ἐλνός</b>), Lith. [[élnis]] 'stag'.)</span>