1. ψάρος · psaros
= ψάρ, Arist. HA 617b26; gen. pl. ψάρων Gal. 6.435.
The corpus record
ψάρος
psaros1 · ὁ
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What it meant — LSJ
2. ψᾱρός · psaros
like a starling, speckled, dappled, dapple-grey
like a starling, i.e. speckled, dappled, ψ. ἵππος a dapple-grey horse, Ar. Nu. 1225, LXX Za. 1.8; Arist. HA 632b19 distinguishes it fr. ποικίλος, which implies that the spots are more distinctly marked:—Comp. ψαρότερος Ael. NA 12.28, Aët. 11.11.
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.