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ἰχνεύμων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰχνεύμων ἰχνεύμονος

Structure: ἰχνευμων (Stem)

Etym.: i)xneu/w

Sense

  1. the tracker, which hunts out, the ichneumon, Pharaoh's rat

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἰχνεύμων ἰχνεύμονε ἰχνεύμονες
Genitive ἰχνεύμονος ἰχνευμόνοιν ἰχνευμόνων
Dative ἰχνεύμονι ἰχνευμόνοιν ἰχνεύμοσιν*
Accusative ἰχνεύμονα ἰχνεύμονε ἰχνεύμονας
Vocative ἰχνεύμων ἰχνεύμονε ἰχνεύμονες

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

  • ἰχνεύμων Αἰγύπτιοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 71 3:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ἰχνεύμων ἀκηκόατε δήπουθεν ὡσ οὐδὲν ἀπολείπει θωρακιζομένου πρὸσ μάχην ὁπλίτου· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 10 6:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ καλούμενοσ ἰχνεύμων, παραπλήσιοσ ὢν μικρῷ κυνί, περιέρχεται τὰ τῶν κροκοδείλων ᾠὰ συντρίβων, τίκτοντοσ τοῦ ζῴου παρὰ τὸν ποταμόν, καὶ τὸ θαυμασιώτατον, οὔτε κατεσθίων οὔτε ὠφελούμενοσ οὐδὲν διατελεῖ φυσικήν τινα χρείαν καὶ κατηναγκασμένην ἐνεργῶν εἰσ ἀνθρώπων εὐεργεσίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 35 7:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὸν Ἀρσινοί̈την καὶ τὸν Ἡρακλεωτικὸν νομὸν Ἡρακλέουσ πόλισ, ἐν ᾗ ὁ ἰχνεύμων τιμᾶται ὑπεναντίωσ τοῖσ Ἀρσινοί̈ταισ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 77:1)
  • ζῷα [δ’] ἐπιχώρια καὶ ὁ ἰχνεύμων καὶ ἡ ἀσπὶσ ἡ Αἰγυπτία ἴδιόν τι ἔχουσα παρὰ τὰσ ἐν ἄλλοισ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 7:9)
  • οὐδ’ ὡσ ἰχνευμ<ων> προσφερὲσ πέφυκεν οὐδ’ ὡσ καρκίν<οσ>; (Sophocles, Ichneutae 25:12)

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

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