The corpus record

ἐλεφάντ-ῐνος

elephantinos

of ivory, substance of ivory, white as ivory

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Where it lives

Canticum 2 · 10.28/10k
Amos 2 · 6.5/10k
Hippias Major 4 · 4.74/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Regnorum III 2 · 1.05/10k
Paralipomenon II 2 · 1.02/10k
Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐλεφάντ-ῐνος · elephant-inos — LSJ

of ivory, substance of ivory

of ivory, Alc. 33.1, Ar. Eq. 1169, Pl. 815, al.; δίφρος ἐ., = Lat. sella curulis, Plb. 6.53.9 (pl.), al.; οἶκοι ἐ. LXX Am. 3.15; τὸ ἐ. the substance of ivory, Pl. Hp.Ma. 290c.

2 white as ivory

white as ivory, μέτωπον Anacreont. 15.12; τάριχος Crates 29.

In the wild

τἠλεφαντίνῃ · tēlephantinēi Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 835)
ἐλεφάντινος · elephantinos Aristophanes, Plutus 815 (DIORISIS sentence 632)
ἐλεφαντίνην · elephantinēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3739)
ἐλεφαντίνου · elephantinou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5169)
ἐλεφάντινον · elephantinon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7081)
ἐλεφάντινον · elephantinon Epictetus, Discourses 2.19 (DIORISIS sentence 3136)

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Where it came from

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