cotyla
cotyla is the alternative form of cotyle.
Meaning of cotyle
Noun
cotyle (plural cotyles or cotylae or cotylai)
- A unit of Greek liquid measure.
- […] if, however, the proportion given in § 3 of one cotyle to two choenices be taken, it would be but two χόες. […] The prisoners at Sphacteria were allowed two Attic choenices of meal and two cotylae of wine; their servants were given half this amount (Thuc. iv. 16).1912, W[alter] W[ybergh] How, J[oseph] Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, Clarendon Press, page 86
- Synonym of hemina (“a unit of Roman liquid measure”).
- Again, they give the patient a cotyle of hulwort, clary seed, or caper root with half a drachm of squill; or an acetabulum of germander or thyme in three cyathi of oxymel; or two cotylae of alexanders seed with three cyathi of wine; or a cotyle of fennel seed and libanotis (Latin rosmarinum...1950, Caelius Aurelianus, translated by Israel Edward Drabkin, On Acute Diseases and On Chronic Diseases, University of Chicago Press, page 749
- Synonyms:
- hemina
- Synonym of acetabulum (“any of various cup-shaped joints, organs, or skin features in various animals”).
- Synonyms:
- acetabulum
Forms of cotyla
| plural | cotylae |
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Origin of cotyla
From Latin cotyla, from Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup, half-pint”).
Questions about cotyla
- What is cotyla the alternative form of?
- Cotyla is the alternative form of cotyle.
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