Cotyle

Quick meaning: Cotyle is a noun meaning (zootomy) Synonym of acetabulum (“any of various cup-shaped joints, organs, or skin features in various animals”).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (chiefly historical) Alternative form of kotyle (“cantharus, a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”).
2. (historical) A unit of Greek liquid measure.
3. (historical) Synonym of hemina (“a unit of Roman liquid measure”).

Example Sentences

[…] 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.

[…] 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).

The preparation of the beverage is as follows: taking three cotylai of rainwater in which a mole has drowned, bring to a boil until a waxy consistency obtains; […] Having crossed, having mixed, having crushed, add a cotyle of premium honey, and make it boil until it reaches the consistency of honey.

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.

Word Forms

• cotyles
• cotylae
• cotylai
• cotyla

Synonyms for cotyle

Depending on context, synonyms include hemina, acetabulum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include riparia, cotyla, chous, cyathus, culeus, kotyle.

Related Dictionary Tools