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ἰχνεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰχνεία

Structure: ἰχνει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i)/xnos

Sense

  1. a casting about for the scent

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἰχνεία ἰχνείᾱ ἰχνεῖαι
Genitive ἰχνείᾱς ἰχνείαιν ἰχνειῶν
Dative ἰχνείᾱͅ ἰχνείαιν ἰχνείαις
Accusative ἰχνείᾱν ἰχνείᾱ ἰχνείᾱς
Vocative ἰχνείᾱ ἰχνείᾱ ἰχνεῖαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅσαι δὲ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων κυνῶν εὑρήματα ἐν ταῖσ ἰχνείαισ καὶ μεταδρομαῖσ προθέουσαι θαμινὰ σκοποῦσιν, ἑαυταῖσ ἀπίστωσ ἔχουσι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 9:1)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἰχνείαισ μὴ ὑπερβάλλεσθαι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 10:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ φωνὴ αὐταῖσ γοερά τε καὶ ἐλεεινή ἐστιν, καὶ οὐχ ὡσ θυμούμεναι ἄρα πρὸσ τὸ θηρίον ἐπικλάζουσιν ἐν τῇ ἰχνείᾳ, ἀλλ̓ ὡσ οἰκτιζόμεναι καὶ λιπαροῦσαι. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 3 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. a casting about for the scent

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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