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κόχλος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόχλος κόχλου

Structure: κοχλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shell-fish with a spiral shell

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κόχλος κόχλω κόχλοι
Genitive κόχλου κόχλοιν κόχλων
Dative κόχλῳ κόχλοιν κόχλοις
Accusative κόχλον κόχλω κόχλους
Vocative κόχλε κόχλω κόχλοι

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

  • τῆσ οἱήν τ’ ἐν ὄρεσσι κελαινὴν ἰκμάδα φηγοῦ Κασπίῃ ἐν κόχλῳ ἀμήσατο φαρμάσσεσθαι, ἑπτὰ μὲν ἀενάοισι λοεσσαμένη ὑδάτεσσιν, ἑπτάκι δὲ Βριμὼ κουροτρόφον ἀγκαλέσασα, Βριμὼ νυκτιπόλον, χθονίην, ἐνέροισιν ἄνασσαν, λυγαίῃ ἐνὶ νυκτί, σὺν ὀρφναίοισ φαρέεσσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:29)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐγκαναχήσατο κόχλῳ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 13)
  • ἐσ τί δὲ κοσμήσεισ ἁλιανθέι φάρεα κόχλῳ, μηκέτι τῆσ καλῆσ ἐγγὺσ ἐὼν Ῥοδόπησ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2282)
  • τῶν δ’ ἐν Ταξίλοισ νομίμων καινὰ καὶ ἀήθη λέγει τό τε τοὺσ μὴ δυναμένουσ ἐκδιδόναι τὰσ παῖδασ ὑπὸ πενίασ προάγειν εἰσ ἀγορὰν ἐν ἀκμῇ τῆσ ὡρ́ασ, κόχλῳ τε καὶ τυμπάνοισ οἷσπερ καὶ τὸ πολεμικὸν σημαίνουσιν ὄχλου προσκληθέντοσ, τῷ δὲ προσελθόντι τὰ ὀπίσθια πρῶτον ἀνασύρεσθαι μέχρι τῶν ὤμων εἶτα τὰ πρόσθεν, ἀρέσασαν δὲ καὶ συμπεισθεῖσαν ἐφ’ οἷσ ἂν δοκῇ συνοικεῖν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 124:1)

Synonyms

  1. a shell-fish 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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