cotylai

Noun

cotyle (plural cotyles or cotylae or cotylai)

1. (historical) 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
2. (historical) 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

3. Synonym of acetabulum (“any of various cup-shaped joints, organs, or skin features in various animals”).

   Synonyms:

   acetabulum