name of one of the Cabiri in Samothrace, St.Byz. s.v. Καβειρία, Hdn.Gr. 2.446:— also Κασμ-, Dionysodor. ap. Sch. A.R. 1.917, cf. IG 12(8).74 (Imbros, ii A.D.), Call. Fr. 409; identified with Hermes, ibid., Hdn.Gr. 1.162, Sch. Lyc. 162: with Lat. camillus (casm-), Varr. LL 7.3, cf. Plu. Num. 7; Καδμῖλοι is prob. for Κάδωλοι, title of ministrants in the cult of the Curetes and Μεγάλοι Θεοί, D.H. 2.22.
The corpus record
Καδμῖλος
*kadmilos · ὁ
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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.