The Latin word for "elephant" is "elephantus."

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• Previous Calica

  2013-10-04 21:33:20

  (flower path)

  more like "REAL CREATIVE, ANGLOPHONES" amirite
• Hexartes

  2013-10-04 21:34:51

  non-Euclidean said:

  more like "REAL CREATIVE, ANGLOPHONES" amirite

  no, you're not
• Previous Calica

  2013-10-04 21:47:08 edited 2013-10-04 21:53:04

  (flower path)

  also the Latin word for "elephant" is elephas, elephantis, m, not any form of elephantus.
• Previous Calica

  2013-10-04 21:47:19

  (flower path)

  They borrowed it from the Greek tho
• Hexartes

  2013-10-04 21:49:47

  non-Euclidean said:

  also the Latin word for "elephant" is elephans, elephantis, m, not any form of elephantus.

  "Elephantus" is in my Latin textbook. And if I'm not mistaken it's not impossible for one thing to have similar sounding words in different declensions.
• Previous Calica

  2013-10-04 21:54:47

  (flower path)

  Wiktionary actually suggests you're right about there being alternate forms here.

  
  

  Still, though: it's anglophones that stole the word from the Romans, because anglophones a few hundred years ago were all romaboos.
• Hexartes

  2013-10-04 21:55:57

  Wiktionary actually suggests you're right about there being alternate forms here.

  
  

  Still, though: it's anglophones that stole the word from the Romans, because anglophones a few hundred years ago were all romaboos.

  
• Misery

  2013-10-04 21:58:03

  The sadness will last forever.

  laziest name ever
• Justice4243

  2013-10-04 22:10:01

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  non-Euclidean said:

  more like "REAL CREATIVE, ANGLOPHONES" amirite

  I was about to post a Youtube video, but I see it's two posts above this one.
• Mr. Darcy

  2013-10-04 23:31:33

  "It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens

  non-Euclidean said:

  more like "REAL CREATIVE, ANGLOPHONES"

  I use my Anglophone to call London without paying for long-distance.
  
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  2013-10-05 05:21:58

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