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κοχλίας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοχλίας κοχλίου

Structure: κοχλι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: ko/xlos

Sense

  1. a snail with a spiral shell

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κοχλίας κοχλίᾱ κοχλίαι
Genitive κοχλίου κοχλίαιν κοχλιῶν
Dative κοχλίᾱͅ κοχλίαιν κοχλίαις
Accusative κοχλίᾱν κοχλίᾱ κοχλίᾱς
Vocative κοχλίᾱ κοχλίᾱ κοχλίαι

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

  • κατήγαγε δ’ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ θάλατταν Φιλέασ ὁ Ταυρομενίτησ μηχανικόσ, ἡ δὲ ἀντλία καίπερ βάθοσ ὑπερβάλλον ἔχουσα δι’ ἑνὸσ ἀνδρὸσ ἐξηντλεῖτο διὰ κοχλίου, Ἀρχιμήδουσ ἐξευρόντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 43 4:1)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ κοχλίου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 83 1:4)
  • Δαίδαλον δὲ ἐδίωκε Μίνωσ, καὶ καθ’ ἑκάστην χώραν ἐρευνῶν ἐκόμιζε κόχλον, καὶ πολὺν ἐπηγγέλλετο δώσειν μισθὸν τῷ διὰ τοῦ κοχλίου λίνον διείραντι, διὰ τούτου νομίζων εὑρήσειν Δαίδαλον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 1 23:1)
  • ὅτι τὸ κοχλίου ἀγαθὸν οὐκ εἰκὸσ εἶναι ἐν τῷ κελύφει, τὸ οὖν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰκόσ; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 17:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ Πάνειον, ὕψοσ τι χειροποίητον στροβιλοειδὲσ ἐμφερὲσ ὄχθῳ πετρώδει διὰ κοχλίου τὴν ἀνάβασιν ἔχον· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 20:11)

Synonyms

  1. a snail with a spiral shell

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

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