The corpus record

χελῑδ-ονίας

chelidonias · ὁ

tunny-fish

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What it meant — LSJ

tunny-fish

a kind of tunny-fish, Diph.Siph. ap. Ath. 8.356f.

χ. ἰχθῦς the more northerly fish of the constellation Pisces, Theon ad Arat. 242.

II the spring wind, because the swallows come with it

the spring wind, because the swallows come with it, Thphr. HP 7.15.1, Plin. HN 2.122.

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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