olifant

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French

Noun

olifant (plural olifants)

1. (obsolete) An elephant.
2. (historical) An ancient horn, made of ivory.

Translations

type of horn

• Catalan: olifant (ca)
• Finnish: olifantti
• French: olifant (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: olifante (pt) m
• Vietnamese: tù và (vi)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “olifant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• floatin'

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch olifant, from Middle Dutch olifant, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊə̯.liˌfant/

Noun

olifant (plural olifante)

1. elephant

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch olifant, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.liˌfɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: oli‧fant

Noun

olifant m (plural olifanten, diminutive olifantje n)

1. elephant

Hypernyms

• olifantachtige
• slurfdier

Derived terms

• kamerolifant
• olifantachtig
• olifantengeheugen
• zeeolifant

Descendants

• Afrikaans: olifant

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French

Etymology

From Old French olifan.

Noun

olifant m (plural olifants)

1. olifant (ivory horn)

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• olifaunt, oliphant, olyphant

Etymology

Old French olifan

Noun

olifant (plural olifants)

1. elephant
2. ivory
3. elephant tusk
4. musical instrument made of elephant tusks
5. musical instrument resembling elephant tusks

Descendants

• English: oliphant, olifant, olyfaunte, olyphant, oliphaunt
• → Cornish: olifans

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Norwegian

Noun

olifant

1. oliphaunt

Inflection

Inflection of olifant

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	olifant	olifanten	olifanter	olifantene
Nynorsk m	olifant	olifanten	olifantar	olifantane

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Old French

Noun

olifant oblique singular, m (oblique plural olifanz or olifantz, nominative singular olifanz or olifantz, nominative plural olifant)

1. Alternative form of olifan

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Vilamovian

Alternative forms

• elefaont

Noun

olifant m (plural olifanta)

1. elephant