χαλκό-μυια · chalko-myia — LSJ
a fly of bright metallic hue
a fly of bright metallic hue, ingredient of an eye-salve, Aët. 7.100.
The corpus record
χαλκό-μυια
chalkomuia · ἡ
a fly of bright metallic hue
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What it meant
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.