the light troops
= οἱ ψιλοί, the light troops, Eust. 1222.53; also ψιλής, ῆτος, ὁ, A. Fr. 451.
The corpus record
ψῑλ-ῆται
psiletai · οἱ
the light troops
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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.