κόδρα

Borrowed from Latin quadra (“square; morsel”). For the initial κο- (ko-) from qua- compare Ancient Greek κοδράντης (kodrántēs), Koine Greek Κοδρᾶτος (Kodrâtos), Byzantine Greek κοτρίγα (kotríga), as well as Ancient Greek Κυρίτης (Kurítēs).

κόδρᾱ • (kódrā) f (genitive κόδρᾱς); first declension (Byzantine or earlier)

1. some architectural element, possibly a platform of a temple or square
   • 7th c. C.E., Ludwig August Dindorf, editor, Chronicon Paschale, published 1832, page 474:

     καὶ καθελὼν τὸν ναὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων τὸν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἔκτισε τὰ δύο δημόσια καὶ τὸ θέατρον καὶ τὸ τρικάμαραον καὶ τὸ τετράνυμφον καὶ τὸ δωδεκάπυλον τὸ πρὶν ὀνομαζόμενον ἀναβαθμοὶ καὶ τὴν κόδραν

     kaì kathelṑn tòn naòn tôn Ioudaíōn tòn en Hierosolúmois éktise tà dúo dēmósia kaì tò théatron kaì tò trikámaraon kaì tò tetránumphon kaì tò dōdekápulon tò prìn onomazómenon anabathmoì kaì tḕn kódran

     And after destroying the temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, (Hadrian) built the two bathhouses, the theater, the trikamaron, the tetranyphon and the dodekapylon, which was formerly called anabathmoin, and the kodra.^[1]

2. ambiguous, possibly square or morsel

   Synonyms: τετράγωνον (tetrágōnon); ψωμός (psōmós)