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]