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γᾰλεός

galeos

like a shark

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What it meant

1. γαλεός · galeos — Beekes

γαλεός [m.] “dogfish, shark’ (Pl. Com.), also = γαλέη (Aret.). *DER γαλεώδῃς ‘like a shark’ (Arist.), γαλεώτης ‘swordfish’ (Plb; see below), also γαλαξίας = γαλεός (Gal.); connection with γαλαξίας ‘milky way’ unclear; remarkable compound γαλεώνυμος = γαλεός (Phylotim. apud Gal.), cf. also καλλιώνυμος name of a fish, see Strémberg 1943: 108f. *ETYM Stromberg l.c. maintained that the dogfish was named after the … — [Beekes, s.v. γαλεός, p. 304]

2. γαλεός · galeos — Frisk

γαλεός m. “Haifisch’ (Pl. Kom., Arist. usw.), auch = γαλέη (Aret.). — Davon γαλεώδης “haifischartig’ (Arist.), γαλεώτης ‘Schwertfisch’ (Plb., Str.; vgl. unten), auch γαλαξίας = γαλεός (Gal.) mit unerklärtem Anschluß an γαλαξίας “Milchstraße’ ; bemerkenswertes Kompositum γαλεώνυμος —= γαλεός (Phylotim. ap. Gal.), Kontamination von diesem und καλλιώνυμος Bez. eines Fisches, s. Strömberg Fischnamen 108f. Daß der … — [Frisk, s.v. γαλεός, p. 317]

3. γᾰλεός · galeos — LSJ

dog-fish, shark, Scyllium stellare, Mustela laevis

dog-fish or small shark, Pl.Com. 137, Arist. HA 489b6; γ. νεβρίας, Scyllium stellare, ib. 565a26; γ. ἀστερίας ib. 543a17, cf. Philyll. 1; γ. λεῖος, Mustela laevis, Arist. HA 565b2.

II

= γαλέη I.3, οἱ ἐνοικάδιοι γ. Aret. CD 1.4.

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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