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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)
  • βάλλετε δὴ κακὸν ὄρνιν, ἐπεὶ βαρὺν ἤρατο μισθὸν ἐκ δηίων, κόχλουσ καὶ βρύον, ὁ προδότησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 551 1:1)
  • κόχλουσ δὲ ἐσ βαφὴν πορφύρασ παρέχεται τὰ ἐπιθαλάσσια τῆσ Λακωνικῆσ ἐπιτηδειοτάτασ μετά γε τὴν Φοινίκων θάλασσαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 10:3)

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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