Dim. of ἔγχελυς, in sg., Ar. Fr. 318.7, Antiph. 222.4: mostly in pl., Pherecr. 108.12, Callias Com. 3, Posidipp. 14; ὀπτᾶτε τἀγχέλεια Ar. Ach. 1043: but in ll.cc. prob. neut. pl. of ἐγχέλειος (sc. κρέα or τεμάχη); so τέμαχος ἐγχέλειον Pherecr. 45, cf. Eust. 1231.36.
The corpus record
ἐγχέλ-ειον
egcheleion · τό
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What it meant — LSJ
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.