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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

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

  • σέβονται γὰρ ἔνια τῶν ζῴων Αἰγύπτιοι καθ’ ὑπερβολὴν οὐ ζῶντα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τελευτήσαντα, οἱο͂ν αἰλούρουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἰχνεύμονασ καὶ κύνασ, ἔτι δ’ ἱέρακασ καὶ τὰσ καλουμένασ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἴβεισ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ τούσ τε λύκουσ καὶ τοὺσ κροκοδείλουσ καὶ ἕτερα τοιαῦτα πλείω, περὶ ὧν τὰσ αἰτίασ ἀποδιδόναι πειρασόμεθα, βραχέα πρότερον ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν διελθόντεσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 83 1:2)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ἰχνεύμονασ κυλιομένουσ ἐν τῷ πηλῷ χασκόντων αὐτῶν καθ’ ὃν ἂν χρόνον ἐπὶ τῆσ χέρσου καθεύδωσιν εἰσπηδᾶν διὰ τοῦ στόματοσ εἰσ μέσον τὸ σῶμα· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 87 5:3)
  • οἱ δὲ τοὺσ ἰχνεύμονασ τοὺσ ὀλεθριωτάτουσ τοῖσ κροκοδείλοισ, καθάπερ καὶ ταῖσ ἀσπίσι· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 77:4)

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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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