Elephantine means enormous and heavy in the way of the largest land animal. Elephantine proportions, an elephantine memory, elephantine and slow.
It is usually about clumsiness as well as size, which is unfair to elephants, since they move remarkably quietly. An elephantine memory borrows the saying that an elephant never forgets.
1adjectiveelephantineEnormous and heavy in the way of the largest land animal.
“The elephantine lorry could barely fit down the narrow village street.”
elephantine is a quality.
Latin elephantinus comes from elephantus, an elephant.
Latin
elephantīnus
English, today
elephantine
From Latin elephantīnus. by surface analysis, en + elephant + ine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA