The corpus record

ἰχν-εύμων

ichneumon · ὁ

tracker, which hunts out, Herpestes ichneumon

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What it meant — LSJ

tracker

tracker: hence,

1 which hunts out, Herpestes ichneumon

an Egyptian animal of the weasel-kind, which hunts out crocodileʼs eggs (aspʼs eggs, Ael. NA 6.38), Herpestes ichneumon, Arist. HA 612a16, Eub. 107.12, Nic. Th. 190, Plu. Sollert. 2.966d, PLond. 3.904 (ii A.D.); cf. ἰχνευτής II.

2 that hunts, Pelopaeus spirifex

a small kind of wasp, that hunts spiders, Pelopaeus spirifex, Arist. HA 552b26, 609a5, cf. Plin. HN 10.204.

a bird, Ant.Lib. 14.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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