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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

  • ἐδόκει γὰρ ἐν κεραμείῳ τεθράφθαι διὰ δυσγένειαν καὶ πενίαν ὁ Ἀγαθοκλῆσ, εἶτα συμπάσησ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἐβασίλευσε Σικελίασ. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 13 8:1)
  • ἀφ’ ὧν καὶ ἡ πλησίον τῶν κεραμείων πύλη Κεραμικὴ καλεῖται καὶ βάπτονται εἰσ τὸ δοκεῖν εἶναι ἀργυραῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 61 1:2)
  • "ὦ ἄνδρεσ τῶν Ἀμφικτύονεσ, ἐξειργασμένον τουτὶ τὸ πεδίον ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀμφισσέων, καὶ κεραμεῖα ἐνῳκοδομημένα καὶ αὔλια· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1191)
  • Λύσανδροσ δ’, ἐπεὶ αὐτῷ Κῦροσ πάντα παραδοὺσ τὰ αὑτοῦ πρὸσ τὸν πατέρα ἀρρωστοῦντα μετάπεμπτοσ ἀνέβαινε, μισθὸν διαδοὺσ τῇ στρατιᾷ ἀνήχθη τῆσ Καρίασ εἰσ τὸν Κεράμειον κόλπον. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 20:1)

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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