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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

  • κἀν τῷδε πᾶσ τισ, ὡσ ὁρᾷ βουφόρβια πίπτοντα καὶ πορθούμεν’, ἐξωπλίζετο, κόχλουσ τε φυσῶν συλλέγων τ’ ἐγχωρίουσ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 4:3)
  • σημαίνει γὰρ κόχλον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 85 1:2)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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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