# elephas
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* elephāns, elephantus

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās), possibly borrowed from Egyptian ꜣbw

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈe.le.pʰaːs/, [ˈɛɫ̪ɛpʰäːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.le.fas/, [ˈɛːlefäs]

### Noun

elephās m (genitive elephantis); third declension
* elephant
* elephantiasis

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | elephās | elephantēs |
| Genitive | elephantis | elephantum |
| Dative | elephantī | elephantibus |
| Accusative | elephantem | elephantēs |
| Ablative | elephante | elephantibus |
| Vocative | elephās | elephantēs |

#### Synonyms

* (elephant): barrus, elephāns, Lūca bōs
* (elephantiasis): elephantiasis, elephantia, elephanticus morbus

#### Descendants

Descendants derived from elephās, elephantus and elephāns all listed here.
* Corsican: elefante
* Italian: elefante
* Ladin: elefant
* Ligurian: liofante
* Lombard: elefant
* Navarro-Aragonese:
** Aragonese: elefant, alifant
* Neapolitan: liufante, alifante
* Old Leonese:
** Asturian: elefante
** Mirandese: eilefante
* Old Occitan: elephant
** Catalan: elefant
** Occitan: elefant
* Old Galician-Portuguese: elefante
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: elefant
** Romansch: elefant
* Piedmontese: elefant
* Sardinian: elefante, elefanti
* Sicilian: liafanti
* Vulgar Latin: *olifantus
** Old French: olifan, elefant, olifant, oliphant
*** Middle French: olifant
**** French: olifant
***** → Catalan: olifant
***** → Finnish: olifantti
***** → Norwegian: olifant
***** → Portuguese: olifante
*** Walloon: elefant
*** → Breton: olifant
*** → Middle Dutch: olifant
**** Dutch: olifant
***** Afrikaans: olifant
***** → Papiamentu: olefante, olifant
*** → Middle English: olifant, olifaunt, oliphant, olyphant (from olifan, olifant form)
**** English: oliphant, olifant, olyfaunte, olyphant, oliphaunt
**** → Cornish: olifans
*** → Middle English: elefant, elefaunt (from elefan, elefant form)
**** English: elephant
***** → Hawaiian: ʻelepani
***** → Maori: arewhana
***** → Tokelauan: elefane
***** → Tongan: ʻelefanite
***** → Welsh: eliffant
**** Scots: elephant
**** → Manx: elefant
*** → Middle Irish: elifaint
**** Irish: eilifint
**** Scottish Gaelic: ailbhean
*** → Old Spanish: elifant, alefant, eleofant
**** Ladino: איליפ׳אנטי (elefante)
**** Spanish: elefante
***** → Basque: elefante
***** → Chol: elefanti
***** → Cebuano: elepante
***** → Hiligaynon: elepante
***** → Quechua: ilijanti
***** → Tagalog: elepante
***** → Waray-Waray: elepante
** → Gothic: 𐌿𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (ulbandus) (uncertain; one of several theories)
*** → Proto-Slavic: *velьb(l)ǫdъ (see there for further descendants)
* → Albanian: elefant
* → Proto-Germanic: *ulbanduz (“camel”) (see there for further descendants)
* → Proto-West Germanic: *elpand (“elephant; ivory”) (see there for further descendants)
* → Middle French: elephant
** French: éléphant
*** Haitian Creole: elefan
*** → Romanian: elefant
** → Irish: eilifint
** → Norman: êléphant, éléphant
* → Chukchi: эʼԓыпын (ėʼḷypyn)
* → Danish: elefant
* → Estonian: elevant
* → Finnish: elefantti
* → Hungarian: elefánt
* → Malagasy: elefanta
* → Mezquital Otomi: elefante
* → Mukulu: 'elbi ?
* → Northern Sami: elefánta
* → Norwegian: elefant
* → Samoan: 'elefane
* → Scottish Gaelic: ailbhean
* → Upper Sorbian: elefant
* → Swedish: elefant
* → Tagalog: elepante
* → Võro: elevant'
* → West Frisian: oaljefant
* → Latvian: elefants
* → Faroese: elefantur
* → Low German: Elefant
* → Chamorro: elifante
* → Inuktitut: alipa
* → Limburgish: Olifante
* → Tuvaluan: elefane
* → Quechua: eliphanti
* → Latgalian: elefants
* → Silesian: elefant

### See also

* elephāns
* elephantus

### References

* elephas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “elephas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “elephas”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* “elephas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin