Dalmatians, Plb. 12.5.2, Str. 7.5.5:—also Δαλμάται, App. Ill. 11: Δαλματία, ἡ, Str. 7.5.3:—Adj. Δαλματικός, ή, όν, Id. 7.5.5:—hence Δαλμᾰτική, ἡ, a robe, CPR 21.16 (iii A.D.):—more freq. Δελμ-, Edict.Diocl. 19.9, al., BGU 93.7 (ii/iii A.D.):—Dim. Δελματίκιον, τό, Sammelb. 1988, POxy. 1026.10 (V A.D.):—also δερματική, PTeb. 405.10 (iii A.D.):—Dim. δερματίκιν, PTeb. 413.8 (ii/iii A.D.).
The corpus record
Δαλμᾰτεῖς
*dalmateis · οἱ
Dalmatians
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What it meant — LSJ
Dalmatians, a robe
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.