Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

olifant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: olifant
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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[.]"
"She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants."

Etymology

From Middle English olifaunt, from Old French oliphaunt, from Latin elephantus. See elephant.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: olifaunt, oliphaunt, elephantus

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

olifants (plural)

Questions

What does olifant mean?: An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
Where does olifant come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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