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κεραμεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραμεῖον κεραμεῖου

Structure: κεραμει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ke/ramos

Sense

  1. a potter's work-shop

Declension

Second 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

  • "ὦ ἄνδρεσ τῶν Ἀμφικτύονεσ, ἐξειργασμένον τουτὶ τὸ πεδίον ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀμφισσέων, καὶ κεραμεῖα ἐνῳκοδομημένα καὶ αὔλια· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1191)
  • εἰ γὰρ νῦν πρῶτον ἄρξεσθε παιδεύειν, σκοπεῖν χρὴ μὴ οὐκ ἐν τῷ Καρὶ ὑμῖν ὁ κίνδυνοσ κινδυνεύηται, ἀλλ’ ἐν τοῖσ ὑέσι τε καὶ ἐν τοῖσ τῶν φίλων παισί, καὶ ἀτεχνῶσ τὸ λεγόμενον κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν ὑμῖν συμβαίνῃ ἐν πίθῳ ἡ κεραμεία γιγνομένη. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 53:2)

Synonyms

  1. a potter's work-shop

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

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