See also: Cotyla

English

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Etymology

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From Latin cotyla, from Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, cup, half-pint).

Noun

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cotyla (plural cotylae)

  1. Alternative form of cotyle (in all senses)

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, cup, half-pint).

Noun

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cotyla f (genitive cotylae); first declension

  1. (chiefly historical) Synonym of cantharus, cotyle, a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup
  2. (historical) cotyle, a Greek unit of liquid measure
  3. (historical) Synonym of hemina, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.27 L
  4. (New Latin) stinking chamomile (Anthemis cotula), an annual weed of strong, bitter, and disagreeable taste used in small quantities in infusions its for diaphoretic, stimulating, and tonic effects
    • 1557, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De Subtilitate ad Hieronymum Cardanum, Frankfurt, published 1582, page 675:
      […] Plantis etiam stercus das. Da etiam urinam, sodes: per quam earum febrem iudices. Stercus in illis ais esse modicum, & siccum. Iccirco bene olere. Etiamne Ballotae, aut Marrubium? Etiamne Spathula, quae a foetore cognomen adepta est? Etiamne illa, cui teterrimum obodorem, teterrima voce (auribus sit honor) à muliebribus pudendis, & eorum opere, duo nomina indiderunt? Ut omittam Cotulam, & alias multas. At, opinor, Arundines Moscho excellentius olent: quia parum in eis stercoris est, atque id siccum. Cantharides quia siccae non sunt, malè olent.
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  5. (New Latin) Synonym of acētābulum, the hip-bone socket
    • 1599, Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg, Observationum medicarum rariorum, libri VII, published 1665, Liber I . De Auribus, page 171:
      Caput est rotundum instar capitis femoris, quod in cotylem ischiae immittitur:
      The head is round like the head of the thighbone which is imitted into the socket of the hipbone.

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References

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  • cotyla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cotyla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cotyla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cotyla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin