Words that come from Latin “elephantus”

150 words across 61 languages descend from Latin elephantus — including elephant, oliphant, elephantlike, elephantoid, elephantry, elephantfish, elephantic, oliphaunt.

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English (26)

German (10)

Hungarian (8)

French (6)

Polish (6)

Middle English (6)

Dutch (5)

Old French (5)

Old English (5)

Czech (4)

Finnish (4)

Spanish (3)

Danish (3)

Romanian (3)

Welsh (2)

Irish (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Tagalog (2)

Norman (2)

Swedish (2)

Classical Nahuatl (2)

Russian (2)

Middle French (1)

Gothic (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

West Frisian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Romansch (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old Czech (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Maori (1)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl (1)

Emilian (1)

Romagnol (1)

Bikol Central (1)

Ilocano (1)

Waray-Waray (1)

Fijian (1)

Marshallese (1)

Copala Triqui (1)

Old Polish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Ingrian (1)

Unami (1)

Kashubian (1)

Rarotongan (1)

Eastern Mari (1)

Komi-Zyrian (1)

Belarusian (1)

Words from Latin elephantus — 150 descendants | Etymology Explorer