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ὕαιν-ᾰ

uaina · ἡ

hyena, Hyaena striata

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Where it lives

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  • Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

I hyena, Hyaena striata

the striped hyena, a carnivorous animal with a bristly mane like a hog (whence the name), Hyaena striata, Hdt. 4.192, Arist. HA 579b15, Ael. NA 7.22, Opp. C. 3.263; also called γλάνος, Arist. HA 594a31; cf. κροκόττας.

2

a kind of antelope, Ael. NA 15.15 (s.v.l.).

II

a sea-fish, Numen. ap. Ath. 7.326f, Ael. NA 13.27; also ὑαινίς, ίδος, ἡ, Epich. 65; v. ὗς II.

III

in Porph. Abst. 4.16 ὑαίνας is most prob. an error for λεαίνας, as the corresponding masc. is λέοντες.

In the wild

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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