κοτύλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κότυλος (kótulos)

Etymology

Furnée asserted a relation to Latin catīnus (“flat dish”), claiming that the deviation in vowel and formation suggests that they are independent loans from a third party, and adducing κόνδυ (kóndu, “cup”) and κονδύλιον (kondúlion), with the observation that -υλη (-ulē) is a well-known suffix in Pre-Greek.

A widespread wanderword is also probable given Sanskrit कुन्तल (kuntala, “drinking-cup”), कन्दु (kandu, “vessel”), करताल (karatāla, “cymbals”), and other nearby forms.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.tý.lɛː/ → /koˈty.li/ → /koˈti.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.tý.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈty.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈty.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈty.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈti.li/

Noun

κοτῠ́λη • (kotúlē) f (genitive κοτῠ́λης); first declension

1. small vessel, cup
2. (anatomy) socket of a joint
3. liquid measure, nearly a half-pint
4. hollow of the hand
5. (in the plural) cymbals

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κοτῠ́λη; τῆς κοτῠ́λης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κοτῠ́λη hē kotúlē	τὼ κοτῠ́λᾱ tṑ kotúlā	αἱ κοτῠ́λαι hai kotúlai
Genitive	τῆς κοτῠ́λης tês kotúlēs	τοῖν κοτῠ́λαιν toîn kotúlain	τῶν κοτῠλῶν tôn kotulôn
Dative	τῇ κοτῠ́λῃ têi kotúlēi	τοῖν κοτῠ́λαιν toîn kotúlain	ταῖς κοτῠ́λαις taîs kotúlais
Accusative	τὴν κοτῠ́λην tḕn kotúlēn	τὼ κοτῠ́λᾱ tṑ kotúlā	τᾱ̀ς κοτῠ́λᾱς tā̀s kotúlās
Vocative	κοτῠ́λη kotúlē	κοτῠ́λᾱ kotúlā	κοτῠ́λαι kotúlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δικότυλος (dikótulos)
• ἑπτακότυλος (heptakótulos)
• ἡμικοτύλη (hēmikotúlē)
• κοτύλεα (kotúlea)
• κοτυληδών (kotulēdṓn)
• κοτυλήρυτος (kotulḗrutos)
• κοτυλιαῖος (kotuliaîos)
• κοτυλίδιον (kotulídion)
• κοτυλίζω (kotulízō)
• κοτυλίς (kotulís)
• κοτυλίσκος (kotulískos)
• κοτυλισμός (kotulismós)
• κοτυλιστής (kotulistḗs)
• κοτυλιστί (kotulistí)
• κοτυλοειδής (kotuloeidḗs)
• κοτυλώδης (kotulṓdēs)
• κοτύλων (kotúlōn)

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: còtila
• → English: kotyle, kotylos
• → Latin: cotyla, cotula, cotylē
  • Aromanian: ciuturã
  • Italian: ciotola
  • Megleno-Romanian: ciutură
  • Romanian: ciutură, citură — archaic, rare

    (some are from Aromanian)

    • → Albanian: çotrë, çutrë, çuturë, çutër (obsolete)
    • → Bulgarian: чу́тура (čútura), чо́тра (čótra), чо́тура (čótura)
    • → Czech: čutora
    • → Gagauz:

      Cyrillic script: чотра

      Latin script: çotra

    • → Greek: τσότρα (tsótra), τσιότρα (tsiótra)
    • → Hungarian: csutora
    • → Macedonian: чутура (čutura), чотра (čotra) — Drama dialect
    • → Romanian: ciutură
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: чу̀тура

      Latin script: čùtura

    • → Slovak: čutora
    • → Slovene: čútara
    • → Ottoman Turkish: چوتوره (çotura), چوتره (çotura, çotra)
      • Turkish: çotra
    • → Ukrainian: чуто́ра (čutóra), чіту́ра (čitúra) (Transcarpathian, archaic)
  • Sicilian: ciòtula
  • → English: cotyle, cotyla
• → New Latin: cotylus (learned), e.g. →⇒ English: hecto-cotylus
• → Old Armenian: կոտիւղ (kotiwł)
• → Old Georgian: კოტჳლი (ḳoṭwili)

Further reading

• “κοτύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κοτύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κοτύλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κοτύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette