éléphant
Appearance
French
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French elephant, from Old French elefant, a borrowing from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας, ἐλέφαντος (eléphas, eléphantos). The commoner Old French form was olifan(t), whence the modern doublet olifant (“ivory horn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]éléphant m (plural éléphants, feminine éléphante)
- elephant (large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea)
- (strictly) male elephant
- Coordinate terms: (gender) éléphante f, éléphantesse f (rare), (age) éléphanteau m, éléphantelle f (rare)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “éléphant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
- Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)
Norman
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- êléphant (Jersey)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French elephant, itself a learned borrowing from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας, ἐλέφαντος (eléphas, eléphantos).
Noun
[edit]éléphant m (plural éléphants)
Categories:
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French doublets
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:French/ɑ̃
- Rhymes:French/ɑ̃/3 syllables
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Elephants
- Norman terms borrowed from Middle French
- Norman terms derived from Middle French
- Norman terms derived from Latin
- Norman terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Guernsey Norman
- nrf:Mammals
- nrf:Elephants
