cotyle

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒtɪliː/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of kotyle (“cantharus, a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”). alt-of,alternative,historical
    — […] which is often falsely called Corinthian, but is really either Attic or Attico-Boeotian: the vases are mostly cups like this, or cotylai: a few examples, the cups Athens 649 and 1106, the cup B.M. 1920, 2-16, 1, and a cotyle in Cambridge.
  2. A unit of Greek liquid measure. historical
    — […] 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).
  3. Synonym of hemina (“a unit of Roman liquid measure”). historical
    — 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, ‘rosemary’) mixed with wine; or a drachm of gum ammoniac with three cyathi of oxymel.
  4. Synonym of acetabulum (“any of various cup-shaped joints, organs, or skin features in various animals”).

词形变化

cotyles plural cotylae plural cotylai plural cotyla alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cotylar cotyliform cotyligerous cotyloid

词源

From Latin cotylē and Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup, half-pint”). Doublet of kotyle and kotylos.
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