Words that come from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας

102 words across 42 languages descend from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας — including elephant, Elephantine, chryselephantine, oliphant, elephantlike, elephantoid, elephantry, elephantfish.

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English (18)

Hungarian (7)

Latin (6)

Middle English (6)

Italian (4)

German (4)

Old French (4)

Ancient Greek (3)

French (3)

Ido (3)

Old English (3)

Translingual (2)

Irish (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Dutch (2)

Czech (2)

Polish (2)

Norman (2)

Spanish (2)

Portuguese (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Middle French (1)

Gothic (1)

Greek (1)

Welsh (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

West Frisian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Asturian (1)

Galician (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Danish (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Romanian (1)

Romansch (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Late Latin (1)