cotyla

See also: Cotyla

English

Etymology

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

Noun

cotyla (plural cotylae)

1. Alternative form of cotyle (“in all senses”)

Latin

Alternative forms

• cotula, cotylē

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cotyla	cotylae
Genitive	cotylae	cotylārum
Dative	cotylae	cotylīs
Accusative	cotylam	cotylās
Ablative	cotylā	cotylīs
Vocative	cotyla	cotylae

Descendants

• Aromanian: ciuturã
• Italian: ciotola
• Megleno-Romanian: ciutură
• Romanian: ciutură, citură — archaic, rare

  (some are from Aromanian)

  • → Albanian: çotrë, çutrë, çuturë, çutër (obsolete)
  • → Bulgarian: чу́тура (čútura), чо́тра (čótra), чо́тура (čótura)
  • → Czech: čutora
  • → Gagauz:

    Cyrillic script: чотра

    Latin script: çotra

  • → Greek: τσότρα (tsótra), τσιότρα (tsiótra)
  • → Hungarian: csutora
  • → Macedonian: чутура (čutura), чотра (čotra) — Drama dialect
  • → Romanian: ciutură
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чу̀тура

    Latin script: čùtura

  • → Slovak: čutora
  • → Slovene: čútara
  • → Ottoman Turkish: چوتوره (çotura), چوتره (çotura, çotra)
    • Turkish: çotra
  • → Ukrainian: чуто́ра (čutóra), чіту́ра (čitúra) (Transcarpathian, archaic)
• Sicilian: ciòtula
• → English: cotyle, cotyla

References

• “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