elephasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɛ.ɫɛ.pʰaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛː.le.fas]

名詞

elephās m (genitive elephantis); third declension

1. elephant
2. elephantiasis

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

同意語

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

派生した語

Descendants derived from elephās, elephantus and elephāns all listed here.

• Corsican: elefante
• Italian: elefante
• Ladin: elefant
• Ligurian: liofante
• Lombard: elefant
• Old 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
  • Fala: elefanti
  • Galician: elefante, alefante
  • Portuguese: elefante, elephante, elephãte (obsolete)
    • Papiamentu: 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, oliphaunt, 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
• → 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
    • Louisiana Creole: léléfan, néléfan
    • → 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

参考

• elephāns
• elephantus

参照

• "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