previous next
ἔλα^φος , ὁ and ἡ,
A.deer, Cervus elaphus, whether male, hart or stag, Il.3.24, etc.; or female, hind, 11.113, etc.; κεραός, ὑψίκερως, ib.475, Od.10.158; “κεροῦσσα” S.Fr.89; “ἔ. βαλιαί” E.Hipp.218 (anap.); “ἔ. ἀντὶ παρθένου” Lib.Ep.785.1; κραδίην ἐλάφοιο [ἔχων] with heart of deer. i.e. a coward, Il.1.225; “φυζακινῇς ἐλάφοισιν ἐοίκεσαν” 13.102, cf. Pl.La. 196e. (Fem. as a generic term, in Trag. and X.Cyn.9.11, 10.22, cf. “αἱ ἔ. τὰ κέρατα ἀποβάλλουσιν” Arist.HA611a27.)
II. κέρας ἐλάφου hartshorn, Gp.13.8.2.
III. deerskin, “ἐλάφου πήρα” Longus3.15.
IV. a kind of cake, Ath.14.649e.
V. figure of a deer used as a weight, IG5(2).125 (Tegea, ii A.D.). (-φος as in ἔρι-φος, etc., ἐλα- from ἐλṇ-, cf. ἐλλός (from Ε᾿λνός), Lith. élnis 'stag'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (11 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 218
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.113
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.225
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.24
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.102
    • Homer, Odyssey, 10.158
    • Plato, Laches, 196e
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 10.22
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 9.11
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 89
    • Longus, Daphnis & Chloe, 3.15
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: