different between ichneumon vs vansire

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French vansire, from Malagasy vontsira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væns??(?)/

Noun

vansire (plural vansires)

1. (zoology) An ichneumon, Atilax paludinosus (syn. Herpestes galera), native to Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white.

Synonyms

• (Atilax paludinosus): vondsira, water mongoose, marsh mongoose, marsh ichneumon

Further reading

• Marsh mongoose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Atilax paludinosus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Atilax paludinosus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Servian, ravines

Danish

Etymology

van- (“mis-”) +? sire (“decorate”)

Verb

vansire (imperative vansir, infinitive at vansire, present tense vansirer, past tense vansirede, perfect tense vansiret)

1. to disfigure (make less visually beautiful)

References

• “vansire” in Den Danske Ordbog