olifantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 olifaunt, from Old French oliphaunt, from Latin elephantus. See elephant.

名詞

olifant (plural olifants)

1. (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[.]

2. (obsolete) An elephant.
   • 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:

     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.

参照

• olifant (instrument) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “olifant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

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語源

Old French olifan

名詞

olifant (plural olifants)

1. elephant
2. ivory
3. elephant tusk
4. musical instrument made of elephant tusks
5. musical instrument resembling elephant tusks

派生した語

• English: oliphant, olifant, olyfaunte, olyphant, oliphaunt
• → Cornish: olifans