Noun: elefante
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | elefante |
| Plural m | elefantes |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Et auja hũ caſtelete en çima todo encoyrado de coyro de alifãt. ⁊ era laũado p̃ g̃rã maeſtria ⁊ pintado moy ben. (And there was a castlet on it, covered with elephant hide and skillfully adorned and very well painted.) [1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, chapter 121, in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 42:]
Nouns inflected like elefante
sabado,
estreleyro,
sobaco,
bezerro,
febreyro,
miradoiro,
pescoço,
perigoo,
cavaleiro,
portuguees,
paranho,
parayso,
afazemento,
deserto,
dereito,
sagrado,
elefante,
biscoito,
fevreyro,
diluvio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin elephās, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās), possibly borrowed from Egyptian ꜣbw, from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. First attested in the 14th century.
Verbs referencing "elefante"
Galician Nouns
elefante, Portuguese Nouns
elefante.
Translations