different between ichneumon vs nems

English

Etymology

From Latin ichneum?n, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ikhneúm?n, “tracker”)’, from ????? (íkhnos, “track, footstep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nju?m?n/

Noun

ichneumon (plural ichneumons)

1. The Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, found in Africa and southern Europe.
2. The ichneumon wasp.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 43:

     Ada's unique Lorelei Underwing had died, paralyzed by some ichneumon that had not been deceived by those clever prominences and fungoid smudges.

Derived terms

• ichneumoned
• ichneumonized
• ichneumonology

Related terms

• ichnology
• ichnogram
• ichneumia

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ikhneúm?n, “tracker”)’, from ????? (íkhnos, “track, footstep”).

Noun

ichneum?n m (genitive ichneumonis); third declension

1. Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon
   • ...deinde internecivum bellum cum ichneumone.
     ...and in the next place she has given it war to the death with the ichneumon.

     Pliny the Elder, Natural History, VIII.35

2. ichneumon wasp, ichneumon fly
   • ...mustela et cornix, turtur et pyrallis, ichneumones vespae et phalangia aranei...
     ...the weasel and the crow, the turtle-dove and the pyrallis, ichneumon-flies and spiders...

     Pliny the Elder, Natural History, X.95

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• ichneumon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ichneumon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Noun

nems

1. (archaic) The ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose.

Anagrams

• men's, mens

French

Noun

nems ?

1. plural of nem