κοχλιάξων

Grammatical information: m. (f.)

Meaning: `shell-fish with a spiral shell, sea-, land-snail', also `purple-scnail, kohl' (E., Arist., Theoc.).

Derivatives: Several diminutiveformations: κοχλίς f. (Luc., Man.); also name of an Arabic stone (Plin.); κοχλία = ξιφύδρια, `shell' (H.); κοχλίδιον (pap., Epict.), - άδιον (sch.). - Further: κοχλίας m. ` snail with spiral shell', often metaph. `waterscrew, spiral stair etc.' (com., Arist., hell.); Lat. LW coc(h)lea, cf. Ernout Aspects du vocab. latin 54f.; κοχλιός `id.' (Paul. Aeg., Aët., Gloss.); κόχλᾱξ m. = κάχληξ (LXX, Dsc.); Lat. LW coclāca (Orib. lat.; cf. Ernout l. c.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Unclear κοχλιάξων (- άζων), - οντος m. kind of machine-screw (Orib.; after ἄξων?). - From Lat. coc(h)lear, - āris n. (from coc(h)lea) as backformation κοχλιάριον ` spoon', also as measure (Dsc., medic.); orig. name of a spoon, of which the sharp end was used to draw the snail from its shell; cf. W.-Hofmann s. coc(h)lear. Connection with κόγχος, κόγχη (s. v.) is evident; it has (Pre-Greek) prenasalization. Note also the vowel-variation in κόχλαξ\/ κά-.

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