Meaning of "cotyle" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF COTYLE

cotyle  [ˈkɒtɪlɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COTYLE

Cotyle is a noun.

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WHAT DOES COTYLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cotyla

In classical antiquity, the cotyla or cotyle was a measure of capacity among the Romans and Greeks: by the former it was also called hemina; by the latter, τρυβλίον and ἡμίνα or ἡμίμνα. It was the half of the sextarius or ξέστης, and contained six cyathi, or nearly half a pint English. This measure was used by physicians with a graduated scale marked on it, like our own chemical measures, for measuring out given weights of fluids, especially oil. A vessel of horn, of a cubic or cylindrical shape, and of the capacity of a cotyla, was divided into twelve equal parts by lines cut on its side. The whole vessel was called litra, and each of the parts an ounce. This measure held nine ounces of oil, so that the ratio of the weight of the oil to the number of ounces it occupied in the measure would be 9:12 or 3:4. Nicolas Chorier observes that the cotyla was used as a dry measure as well as a liquid one, from the authority of Thucydides, who in one place mentions two cotylae of wine, and in another two cotylae of bread.

Definition of cotyle in the English dictionary

The definition of cotyle in the dictionary is a cavity that resembles a cup.

TRANSLATION OF COTYLE

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• Translator English - Chinese: 臼
• Translator English - Spanish: cotilo
• English: cotyle
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• Translator English - German: Gelenkpfanne
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• Translator English - Javanese: Cotyle
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• Translator English - Marathi: कॉटलस
• Translator English - Turkish: cotyle
• Translator English - Italian: cotile
• Translator English - Polish: cotyle
• Translator English - Ukrainian: cotyle
• Translator English - Romanian: cotyle
• Translator English - Greek: κοτύλη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: cotyle
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COTYLE»

Discover the use of cotyle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cotyle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of ...

11.4A, B and C, D, respectively) are the ends of trunk vertebral centra that are similar in size, build, and general details of the cotyle. The shallowly concave cotyle of MNA V10277 suggests that this is an anterior cotyle, whereas the more ...

Alan L. Titus, Mark A. Loewen, 2013

Fossil Snakes of North America: Origin, Evolution, ...

The cotyle and the condyle are subtriangular ovate, and their faces are much more vertical than is usual in snake vertebrae. The cotyle is directed very slightly downward. The neural arch is high and massive. The neural canal is wider than it is ...

J. Alan Holman, 2000

A History of the Birds of Europe: Including All the Species ...

COTYLE OBSOLETA. (PALE (IRAQ-MARTIN.) _ Cotyle rupestris, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1845, use Scop.). Cotyle obsolete, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 50 ( 1850). Cotile cahz'n'ea, A. E. Brehm, Journ. fiir Cm. 1853, p. 452. Cotyle palustris  ...

Henry Eeles Dresser, 1881

A catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan vases in the British ...

On the right an ephebos in the same attitude as the 1. hand one in the interior, and holding a cotyle on his 1. hand ; next, a bearded man, who looks round at the first, twirling aloft a kylix on his forefinger ; the fingers of his 1. hand, on which he  ...

British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Henry Beauchamp Walters, 1896

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Subfamily COTYLINJB. 1. Genus COTYLE, Boie. Isis, 1822, p. 350. 1. COTYLE RIPARIA, (Linn.) Gould, B. of Eur. ii. pi. 58. Jhvl. B. of Jim. pi. 885. Hirundo riparia, Linn. Sgst. Nat. i. p. 344. " Hirundo cinerea, Latb." Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 526.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1854

List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the ...

Cotyle paludibula Rüpp. Syst. Uebers. Vög. p. 22. Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. t. 246. f. 1. a. Cape of Good Hope. From Mr. Baker's Collection. b. Abyssinia. Presented by the Hon. East India Company. 4. Cotyle sinensis. The small Crag Swallow. Hirundo ...

British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology, George Robert Gray, 1848

List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the ...

Cotyle paludibula Hupp. Syst. Uebers. Vog. p. 22. Lew.ill. Ois. d'Afr. t.246. f. 1. a. Cape of Good Hope. From Mr. Baker's Collection. b. Abyssinia. Presented by the Hon. East India Company. 4. Cotyle sinensis. The small Crag Swallow. Hirundo ...

British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology, George Robert Gray, 1848

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, ...

(2, IS), or more closely 11 to 12 times i of Attic. Hence, the Attic cotylo being 17.5 cubic inches, the jEginetan is about 25.7. The Boeotian system (18) included theachane; if this = Persian, then cotyle = 24.7. Or.sepa- ratelv through the Roman ...

Proceedings

Cotyle obsoleta, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 50 (1850) ; Mull. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 5 ; Hartm. Journ. f. Orn. 1863, p. 238; Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 74 (1869). Cotyle rupestris, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1845) ; Vierth. Nauraan. 1855. 'p. 471 : Heugl.

Zoological Society of London, 1870

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: latest edition. A dictionary ...

17'5; 6 rnetretes-2 feet of 12-45 cubed, 17 8 cubic inches for cotyle. But probably as good theories could be found for any other amount ; and certainly the facts should not be set aside, as almost every author has done, in favour of some one of ...

Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith, 1902

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COTYLE»

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Turning Geometries Double Tool Life

Biomet has now achieved additional gains on a titanium component called a cotyle, essentially a cup-shaped component with a central bore ... «Today's Medical Developments, Oct 13»

Prothèses de hanches : «des erreurs de conception»

La cupule (partie en métal gris foncé placée sur la tête de la prothèse) vient remplacer le cotyle (ou acetabulum). (Source: Depuy). «Sciences et Avenir, Mar 12»