The corpus record

ἰχν-ευτής

ichneutes · ὁ

tracker, hunter

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Where it lives

Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

tracker, hunter

tracker, hunter, Poll. 5.10; of dogs which hunt by scent, ib. 17: metaph., Κύπριδος ἰχνευτὰς ἀργυρέους σκύλακας, of money given to a ἑταίρα, AP 5.15 (Marc. Arg.): Ἰχνευταί, οἱ, title of a satyric play by Sophocles (cf. v. 298).

2 detective, traces

detective who traces missing persons, PRyl. 188.22 (ii A.D.).

= ἰχνεύμων I, Hdt. 2.67, Nic. Th. 195.

In the wild

ἰχνευταὶ · ichneutai Herodotus, Histories 2.67.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2019)
ἰχνευτὴς · ichneutēs Septuaginta, Siracides 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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