κόχλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Connection with κόγχος (kónkhos, “mussel, cockle”) is evident; it has Pre-Greek prenasalization.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.kʰlos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.kʰlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.xlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.xlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.xlos/
Noun
κόχλος • (kókhlos) m (genitive κόχλου); second declension
- shellfish with a spiral shell, used for dyeing purple
- land snail
- Synonyms: σέσῑλος (sésīlos), στρόμβος (strómbos)
- kohl
- Synonyms: λᾰ́ρβᾰσον (lárbason), στῐ́μμῐ (stímmi)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κόχλος; τοῦ κόχλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόχλος ho kókhlos | τὼ κόχλω tṑ kókhlō | οἱ κόχλοι hoi kókhloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κόχλου toû kókhlou | τοῖν κόχλοιν toîn kókhloin | τῶν κόχλων tôn kókhlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κόχλῳ tôi kókhlōi | κόχλοιν kókhloin | τοῖς κόχλοις toîs kókhlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόχλον tòn kókhlon | κόχλω kókhlō | τοὺς κόχλους toùs kókhlous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόχλε kókhle | κόχλω kókhlō | κόχλοι kókhloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κοχλῐ́ᾱ (kokhlíā)
- κοχλῐᾰ́ρῐον (kokhliárion)
- κόχλῐᾱς (kókhliās)
- κοχλῐ́δῐον (kokhlídion)
- κοχλῐοειδής (kokhlioeidḗs)
- κοχλῐοκογχῠ́λῐον (kokhliokonkhúlion)
- κοχλῐ́ς (kokhlís)
- κοχλῐώρῠχον (kokhliṓrukhon)
Further reading
- κόχλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόχλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόχλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN