cotyla

See also: Cotyla

English

Noun

cotyla (plural cotylae)

1. (anatomy) Alternative form of cotyle
2. (historical) Alternative form of cotyle

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Latin

Alternative forms

• cotula, cotylē

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē).

Noun

cotyla f (genitive cotylae); first declension

1. a unit of capacity (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. (New Latin) stinking chamomile (Anthemis cotula), an annual weed of a strong, bitter, and disagreeable taste administered commonly by infusion for its diaphoretic, stimulating, and tonic effects in small quantities
   • 1557, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De Subtilitate ad Hieronymum Cardanum, Frankfurt, published 1582, page 675:

     […] Plantis etiam stercus das. Da etiam urinam, sodes: per quam earum febrem iudices. Stercus in illis ais esse modicum, & siccum. Iccirco bene olere. Etiamne Ballotae, aut Marrubium? Etiamne Spathula, quae a foetore cognomen adepta est? Etiamne illa, cui teterrimum obodorem, teterrima voce (auribus sit honor) à muliebribus pudendis, & eorum opere, duo nomina indiderunt? Ut omittam Cotulam, & alias multas. At, opinor, Arundines Moscho excellentius olent: quia parum in eis stercoris est, atque id siccum. Cantharides quia siccae non sunt, malè olent.

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3. (New Latin) socket of the hip-bone
   • 1599, Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg, Observationum medicarum rariorum, libri VII, published 1665, Liber I . De Auribus, page 171:

     Caput est rotundum instar capitis femoris, quod in cotylem ischiae immittitur:

     The head is round like the head of the thighbone which is imitted into the socket of the hipbone.

   Synonym: acētābulum

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cotyla	cotylae
Genitive	cotylae	cotylārum
Dative	cotylae	cotylīs
Accusative	cotylam	cotylās
Ablative	cotylā	cotylīs
Vocative	cotyla	cotylae

Descendants

• Aromanian: ciuturã, ciutrã
• Italian: ciotola
• Megleno-Romanian: ciutură
• Romanian: ciutură

References

• “cotyla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cotyla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cotyla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cotyla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin