ἔλᾰφος, ὁ
and ἡ, deer, Cervus elaphus, whether male, hart or stag, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.24, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; or female, hind, [[ 11.113 ] Refs], etc.; κεραός, ὑψίκερως,[[ [prev. work] 475, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.158; κεροῦσσα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 89; ἔ. βαλιαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 218 (_anapaest meter_); ἔ. ἀντὶ παρθένου 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 785.1 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κραδίην ἐλάφοιο [ἔχων] with heart of deer. i.e. a coward, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.225; φυζακινῇς ἐλάφοισιν ἐοίκεσαν 13.102, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 196e ] Refs 8th c.BC+]. (Fem. as a generic term, in Trag. and [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 9.11, 10.22, compare αἱ ἔ. τὰ κέρατα ἀποβάλλουσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 611a27.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II κέρας ἐλάφου hartshorn, [[ “Geoponica” 13.8.2. ] Refs]
__III deerskin, ἐλάφου πήρα [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 3.15. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__IV a kind of cake, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 14.649e. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__V figure of a deer used as a weight, [[ “IG” 5(2).125 (Tegea, 2nd c.AD). (-φος as in ἔρι-φος, etc., ἐλα- from ἐλ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]ṇ-, compare ἐλλός (from *ἐλνός), Lithuanian élnis 'stag'.)