coclear

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

cŏclĕar (cochl-), āris (cŏclĕārĭ-um, ii, Scrib. Comp. 122; 96; Cels. 3, 22; cŏclĕāre, is, Mart. 8, 71, 10; 8, 14, 121; and coclĕārum, i, Plin. 20, 22, 89, § 242), n. [coclea, of the form of a snail-shell],

a spoon , Mart. l. l.; Cels. 6, 14; Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19; Petr. 33, 6 al.—As a measure for liquids , esp. in medicine, a spoonful , = half a cheme or 1/144 of a cotyla, Rhem. Fann. Pond.; Col. 12, 21, 3; Plin. 23, 4, 38, § 76; 27, 4, 5, § 17, and the above passages with coclearium.