1. φάγιλος · phagilos — Beekes
φάγιλος [m.] = ἀμνός ‘lamb’ (Arist. Fr. 507). < GR> eETYM Derived from » φαγεῖν and referring to the age of the lamb, scil. when becomes edible. — [Beekes, s.v. φάγιλος, p. 1594]
The corpus record
φάγῐλος
phagilos
lamb
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What it meant
2. φάγιλος · phagilos — Frisk
φάγιλος — ἀμνός (Arist. Fr. 507). — Zu φαγεῖν mit Bezug auf das Alter, wenn das Lamm eßbar wird (Fick GGA 1894, 247, Chantraine Form. 248f.). 1. p&ypog kret. Wort für ἀκόνη, “Wetzstein’, nach Simias bei Ath. 6, 327e (Fr. 27). — Kann mit arm. bark ‘herb, bitter, scharf vom Geschmack, heftig, zornig’, wenn aus idg. *bhagro-, formal, letzten Endes auch semantisch („schärfend, der Schärfer‘‘ mit substantivierender … — [Frisk, s.v. φάγιλος, p. 1952]
3. φάγῐλος · phagilos — LSJ
a lamb, when it begins to be eatable, to eat alone
a lamb, either when it begins to be eatable or to eat alone, Arist. Fr. 507; written φαγηλός, φαναός in Hsch., φανυλός in Eust. 1625.38.
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.