elefante

Borrowed from Latin elephantem, accusative of elephans, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās). Cognates include Spanish elefante and Portuguese elefante.

elefante m (plural elefantes)

1. elephant (mammal)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Spanish or directly from Latin?”)

• IPA^(key): /elefante/, [e̞.le̞.fãn̪.t̪e̞]

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elefante anim

1. elephant

• "elefante" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “elefante” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Borrowed from Spanish elefante.

elefante

1. elephant.

• elepante (obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish elefante.

elefante

1. elephant

• elefente

Borrowed from Latin elephantem, accusative of elephas, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās). Cognates include Italian elefante and Spanish elefante.

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfãnte/

elefante m (plural elefanti)

1. elephant

• “elefante, elefente” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• alefante

Attested since the 14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], borrowed from Latin elephās, elephantis (“elephant”), from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās, “elephant, ivory”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛleˈfante̝/

elefante m (plural elefantes)

1. elephant

• “elifante” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “elefante” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “alyfante” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “elefante” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “elefante” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “elefante” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin elephantem, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας (eléphas), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀩𐀞 (e-re-pa), from a compound of Berber *eḷu and either Egyptian ꜣbw or Sanskrit इभ (íbha).

• IPA^(key): /e.leˈfan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: e‧le‧fàn‧te

elefante m (plural elefanti, feminine elefantessa)

1. elephant

• elefantiaco
• elefantiasi
• elefantino

• → Sicilian: lifanti (or inherited from Latin)

• elefante on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

elefante

1. vocative singular of elefantus

• elephante (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese (h)elefante, elifante, borrowed from Latin elephantis (“elephant”), from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās, “elephant, ivory”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi
• Hyphenation: e‧le‧fan‧te

elefante m (plural elefantes, feminine elefanta or aliá, feminine plural elefantas or aliás)

1. elephant

• elefantino

• olifante

• Papiamentu: elefante

• mamute
• marfim
• tromba

From various Old Spanish forms like elifant, alefant and eleofant, all ultimately from Latin elephās, elephāntis, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας (eléphas).

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfante/ [e.leˈfãn̪.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: e‧le‧fan‧te

elefante m (plural elefantes, feminine elefanta, feminine plural elefantas)

1. elephant

• → Basque: elefante
• → Chol: elefanti
• → Cebuano: elepante
• → Hiligaynon: elepante
• → Quechua: ilijanti
• → Tagalog: elepante
• → Waray-Waray: elepante

• “elefante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014