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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

  • οἱ δὲ θοῶσ συνάγερθεν ὑπὸ σκιερὰσ πλατανίστουσ κόχλου φυσηθέντοσ ἀεὶ Βέβρυκεσ κομόωντεσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 53)
  • Πέτρον ὁρᾷσ χρυσέοισιν ἐν εἵμασιν αἱ δὲ παρ’ αὐτὸν ἀρχαὶ ἀμοιβαίων μάρτυρέσ εἰσι πόνων ἀντολίησ πρώτη, καὶ διχθαδίη μετὰ τήνδε κόχλου πορφυρέησ, καὶ πάλιν ἀντολίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 371)
  • οἱ δὲ καὶ φυσᾶν διὰ κόχλου τετρυπημένησ φασὶν αὐτούσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 10:3)

Synonyms

  1. a shell-fish with a spiral shell

Related

Similar forms

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

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