‖ cotyle
(ˈkɒtɪliː)
[Gr. κοτύλη (in L. form cotyla) a hollow thing, a small vessel, a small liquid measure of about half a pint.]
1. Gr. Antiq. See quots. Also ‖ kotyle.
| 1707 Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 281 Galen Bleeds Youth of fourteen Years one Cotyla, that is, ten Ounces. 1857 Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 96 The cotyle, or cotylos, is supposed to have been a deep cup..It was also a measure of liquid capacity. 1926 C. Day Lewis in Oxf. Poetry 18 (title) Naked woman with kotyle. 1948 A. Lane Greek Pott. iv. 26 Kotyle, painted in brown-black on greenish buff clay. |
2. Anat. and Zool. a. The acetabulum or socket of the hip-joint; also the coxal cavity in insects. b. One of the cup-shaped suckers on the ‘arms’ of cephalopods, or on the heads of leeches, trematoid worms, etc.
| 1882 Syd. Soc. Lex., Cotyle, the acetabulum, or socket of the hip-joint. Also, a cup-shaped organ, of which there are many, on the arm of Cephalopoda, by which the animal attaches itself. |