Elephantine

See also: elephantine and éléphantine

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἐλεφαντίνη (Elephantínē).

Proper noun

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Wikipedia

Elephantine

1. An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.

Translations

an island

Arabic: إِلْفَنْتِين f (ʔilfantīn) Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة الفنتين (Gazīrat il-Fantīn) Aramaic: יב Chinese: Mandarin: 象岛 Coptic: ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb) Egyptian: (ꜣbw f) Greek: Ancient: Ἐλεφαντίνη f (Elephantínē), Ἰηβ (Iēb) Hebrew: יב (yev) Latin: Elephantīnē f

Adjective

Elephantine (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.

Translations

of, from, or pretaining to the island

Arabic: إِلْفَنْتِينِيّ f (ʔilfantīniyy) Egyptian Arabic: فنتيني (fantīnī)

See also

• Elephantine papyri

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἐλεφαντίνη (Elephantínē).

Proper noun

Elephantīnē f sg (genitive Elephantīnēs); first declension

1. Elephantine (ancient island city in Egypt)

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Elephantīnē
genitive	Elephantīnēs
dative	Elephantīnae
accusative	Elephantīnēn
ablative	Elephantīnē
vocative	Elephantīnē
locative	Elephantīnēs

References

• “Elephantine”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Elephantine”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.