1. ἔγκαρος · enkaros — Beekes
ἔγκαρος [m.] ‘brains’ (AP, Lyc.). *ETYM Scholarly hypostasis from ἐν and » κάρᾷ, κάρη ‘head’, after ἐγκέφαλος : κεφαλή. Cf. » tyKpoc. — [Beekes, s.v. ἔγκαρος, p. 417]
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egkaros
brains
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1. ἔγκαρος · enkaros — Beekes
2. ἔγκαρος · enkaros — Chantraine
3. ἔγκαρος · enkaros — Frisk
4. ἔγκᾰρος · enkaros — LSJ
the brain, AP 9.519.3 (Alc.), Lyc. 1104.
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.