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κοτύλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοτύλη

Structure: κοτυλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a cup
  2. the cup or socket
  3. a liquid measure, half a pint

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ὁποίᾳ ἂν πέτρᾳ προσελθὼν ἁρμόσῃ τὰσ κοτύλασ καὶ προσφὺσ ἔχηται κατὰ τὰσ πλεκτάνασ, ἐκείνῃ ὅμοιον ἀπεργάζεται ἑαυτὸν καὶ μεταβάλλει τὴν χρόαν μιμούμενοσ τὴν πέτραν, ὡσ ἂν λάθῃ τοὺσ ἁλιέασ μὴ διαλλάττων μηδὲ φανερὸσ ὢν διὰ τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ ἐοικὼσ τῷ λίθῳ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, menelaus and proteus, chapter 31)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ οἶδ’ ὅπερ μάλιστα λυπεῖ αὐτόν, ὅτι μὴ τὰ γλίσχρα ἐκεῖνα καὶ λεπτὰ κάθημαι πρὸσ αὐτὸν σμικρολογούμενοσ, εἰ ἀθάνατοσ ἡ ψυχή, καὶ πόσασ κοτύλασ ὁ θεὸσ ὁπότε τὸν κόσμον εἰργάσατο τῆσ ἀμιγοῦσ καὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐχούσησ οὐσίασ ἐνέχεεν εἰσ τὸν κρατῆρα ἐν ᾧ τὰ πάντα ἐκεράννυτο, καὶ εἰ ἡ Ῥητορικὴ πολιτικῆσ μορίου εἴδωλον, κολακείασ τὸ τέταρτον. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 34:3)
  • καὶ πρίν σε κοτύλασ ἐκπιεῖν οἴνου δέκα, ὁ Πλοῦτοσ ὦ δέσποιν’ ἀνειστήκει βλέπων· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:34)
  • Ἄλεξισ κοτύλασ τέτταρασ ἀναγκάσασ μεστὰσ ἔμ’ αὐτίτου σπάσαι ὄξουσ Δεκελεικοῦ δι’ ἀγορᾶσ μέσησ ἄγεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 76 2:3)
  • μόλισ οὖν ἐπιτυγχάνει τῶν Καυνίων ἐκείνων τῶν κακοβίων ἑνὸσ ἐν ἀσκίῳ φαύλῳ διεφθαρμένον ὕδωρ καὶ πονηρὸν ἔχοντοσ, ὅσον ὀκτὼ κοτύλασ καὶ λαβὼν τοῦτο καὶ κομίσασ τῷ βασιλεῖ δίδωσιν. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 12 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a cup

  2. the cup or socket

  3. a liquid measure

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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