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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

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

  • τὰ δὲ ὄμματα ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν γλαυκὰ καὶ χεῖρέσ εἰσιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ δάκτυλοι καὶ ὄνυχεσ τοῖσ ἐπιθέμασιν ἐμφερεῖσ τῶν κόχλων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 3:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ἐνταῦθα πλέον ἡμίσεισ κόχλων ἐσ βαφὴν πορφύρασ εἰσὶν ἁλιεῖσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 37 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a shell-fish with a spiral shell

Related

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

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