ἰχνεύμων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Literally, "the tracer", from ἰχνεύω (ikhneúō, “to trace”) + -μων (-mōn).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /i.kʰněu̯.mɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈkʰnew.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈxneβ.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈxnev.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈxnev.mon/
Noun
ἰχνεύμων • (ikhneúmōn) m (genitive ἰχνεύμονος); third declension
- an Egyptian animal of the weasel-kind, which hunts out crocodile's eggs (asp's eggs), ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon
- a small kind of wasp, that hunts spiders, Sceliphron spirifex
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἰχνεύμων ho ikhneúmōn |
τὼ ἰχνεύμονε tṑ ikhneúmone |
οἱ ἰχνεύμονες hoi ikhneúmones | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἰχνεύμονος toû ikhneúmonos |
τοῖν ἰχνευμόνοιν toîn ikhneumónoin |
τῶν ἰχνευμόνων tôn ikhneumónōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἰχνεύμονῐ tôi ikhneúmoni |
τοῖν ἰχνευμόνοιν toîn ikhneumónoin |
τοῖς ἰχνεύμοσῐ / ἰχνεύμοσῐν toîs ikhneúmosi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἰχνεύμονᾰ tòn ikhneúmona |
τὼ ἰχνεύμονε tṑ ikhneúmone |
τοὺς ἰχνεύμονᾰς toùs ikhneúmonas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἰχνεῦμον ikhneûmon |
ἰχνεύμονε ikhneúmone |
ἰχνεύμονες ikhneúmones | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἰχνεύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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