cotyle

Noun

1. Alternative form of kotyle (“cantharus, a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”).
   • […] which is often falsely called Corinthian, but is really either Attic or Attico-Boeotian: the vases are mostly cups like this, or cotylai: a few examples, the cups Athens 649 and 1106, the cup B.M. 1920, 2-16, 1, and...
2. A unit of Greek liquid measure.
   • […] if, however, the proportion given in § 3 of one cotyle to two choenices be taken, it would be but two χόες. […] The prisoners at Sphacteria were allowed two Attic choenices of meal and two cotylae of wine; their...
   • […] add a cotyle of oil, a half-cotyle of honey, a cotyle of sweet white wine, and two cotylai of beets; boil these until you think they have the proper consistency; then strain through a linen cloth, and add a cotyle...
   • Cleopatra uses the cotyle as a standard to compare other measures. She also gives a weight for each measure, probably the weight of water of that volume. A cotyle is normally given at the weight of 80 ‘Attic’ drachmas;...
3. Synonym of hemina (“a unit of Roman liquid measure”).
   • Again, they give the patient a cotyle of hulwort, clary seed, or caper root with half a drachm of squill; or an acetabulum of germander or thyme in three cyathi of oxymel; or two cotylae of alexanders seed with three...

   Synonyms: hemina

4. Synonym of acetabulum (“any of various cup-shaped joints, organs, or skin features in various animals”).

   Synonyms: acetabulum