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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

  • "καὶ μύκησ τισ ἐνίοτ’ ἂν ὠπτᾶτο καὶ κοχλίασ γενομένου ψακαδίου ἠγρεύετ’ ἂν καὶ λάχανα τῶν αὐτοχθόνων θλαστὴ τ’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5265)
  • "κοχλίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52145)
  • "οὔκ εἰμι τέττιξ οὐδὲ κοχλίασ, ὦ γύναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52147)
  • "καὶ πάλιν μαινίδεσ , σκόμβροι, κοχλίαι, κορακῖνοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52148)
  • "ἀπιστότεροσ τῶν κοχλιῶν πολλῷ πάνυ, οἳ περιφέρουσ1’ ὑπ’ ἀπιστίασ τὰσ οἰκίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52151)
  • "ἦ τοσούσδ’ Αἴτνη τρέφει κοχλίασ κεράστασ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52153)
  • "πίννασ, κάραβον, βολβούσ, κοχλίασ, κήρυκασ, ᾤ’, ἀκροκώλια, τοσαῦτα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52172)

Synonyms

  1. a snail with a spiral shell

Related

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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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