Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pl. cotylæ (-lē). In Greek antiquity: A small drinking- or dipping-vessel, the exact form of which is uncertain.
- noun An ancient Greek unit of capacity, varying from less than half a pint to a quart, United States (old wine) measure.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a cup-like cavity; an acetabulum.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] In ornithology, an erroneous form of
Cotile .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
cup-shaped organs in various animals
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Examples
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It should be particularly known that the union of all bones is, for the most part, by a head and socket (cotyle); in some of these the place (socket?) is cotyloid and oblong, and in some the socket is glenoid (shallow?).
On The Articulations 2007
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Having thus escaped the danger, the Romans threw their sentinel down the rock; while on Manlius they conferred by vote a reward for his bravery, intended more for honour than advantage; for each man gave him a day's rations, which consisted of half a Roman pound of meal, and the fourth part of a Greek cotyle of wine.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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And then my etymological heart quickened in the presence of the Grand Design, for there was one more definition: "One of the cotyle-dons or lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals."
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ISfchias iifdem remediis curatur, praeterquam quod repelletia no admittat, fed purgato cor - pore, valenter foras ex profunda cotyle trahen - tibus: vt, cataplafmate ex ftercore colubinoin - diget.
Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio, certa methodo comprehensa, ex ... Marco Gatinaria 1554
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