olifant - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle English olifaunt, from Old French oliphaunt, from Latin elephantus. See elephant.
olifant (plural olifants)
- (obsolete) An elephant.
- (historical) An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 35, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 479:
And he sang them the staves of the Olifant, the magic horn,—how Roland would not sound it in his pride, and sounded it at Turpin’s bidding, but too late[.]
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From Dutch olifant, from Middle Dutch olifant, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).
olifant (plural olifante)
From Middle Dutch olifant, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).
olifant m (plural olifanten, diminutive olifantje n)
Inherited from Old French olifan (literally “elephant”).
olifant m (plural olifants)
- olifant (ivory horn)
2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 5, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
Saskia ouvre les yeux et embouche son olifant pour sonner l’ouverture de la chasse à la manière médiévale.
- Saskia opens her eyes and raises her olifant to her lips to sound the start of the medieval hunt.
- “olifant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
olifant (plural olifants)
- elephant
- ivory
- elephant tusk
- musical instrument made of elephant tusks
- musical instrument resembling elephant tusks
olifant m (definite singular olifanten, indefinite plural olifanter, definite plural olifantene)
olifant m (definite singular olifanten, indefinite plural olifantar, definite plural olifantane)
olifant oblique singular, m (oblique plural olifanz or olifantz, nominative singular olifanz or olifantz, nominative plural olifant)
- Alternative form of olifan
olifant m (plural olifanta)