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κεραμεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραμεία

Structure: κεραμει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: kerameu/s

Sense

  1. the potter's art or craft

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ εἰ μὴ ηὑρίσκομεν δι’ ἡμᾶσ μηδένα βελτίω γεγονότα τὸ σῶμα, μήτε τῶν ξένων μήτε τῶν ἀστῶν, μήτε ἄνδρα μήτε γυναῖκα, πρὸσ Διόσ, ὦ Καλλίκλεισ, οὐ καταγέλαστον ἂν ἦν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, εἰσ τοσοῦτον ἀνοίασ ἐλθεῖν ἀνθρώπουσ, ὥστε, πρὶν ἰδιωτεύοντασ πολλὰ μὲν ὅπωσ ἐτύχομεν ποιῆσαι, πολλὰ δὲ κατορθῶσαι καὶ γυμνάσασθαι ἱκανῶσ τὴν τέχνην, τὸ λεγόμενον δὴ τοῦτο ἐν τῷ πίθῳ τὴν κεραμείαν ἐπιχειρεῖν μανθάνειν, καὶ αὐτούσ τε δημοσιεύειν ἐπιχειρεῖν καὶ ἄλλουσ τοιούτουσ παρακαλεῖν; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 412:5)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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