[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. (Not in English use.)
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.
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.
