κανδήλη · kandēlē — LSJ
candle, torch, moth
Lat. candela, candle, torch, Ath. 15.701b:—hence κανδηλο-σβέστης, ου, ὁ, fem. κανδηλο-σβέστρια, ἡ, moth, Sch. Nic. Th. 763, Sch. Opp. H. 1.404.
The corpus record
κανδήλη
kandele · ἡ
candle, torch
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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.