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κέραμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κέραμος κεράμου

Structure: κεραμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. potter's clay
  2. earthen vessel, wine-jar
  3. tile

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

  • ἤνεγκαν δέκα κοίτασ καὶ ἀμφιτάπουσ καὶ λέβητασ δέκα καὶ σκεύη κεράμου καὶ πυροὺσ καὶ κριθὰσ καὶ ἄλευρον καὶ ἄλφιτον καὶ κύαμον καὶ φακὸν (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 17:28)
  • πύλαι μέντοι ἔπεισιν οὐ δύο, καθάπερ Ὅμηροσ εἴρηκεν, ἀλλά τέσσαρεσ, δύο μὲν πρὸσ τὸ τῆσ Βλακείασ πεδίον ἀποβλέπουσαι, ἡ μὲν σιδηρᾶ, ἡ δὲ ἐκ κεράμου πεποιημένη, καθ’ ἃσ ἐλέγοντο ἀποδημεῖν αὐτῶν οἵ τε φοβεροὶ καὶ φονικοὶ καὶ ἀπηνεῖσ, δύο δὲ πρὸσ τὸν λιμένα καὶ τὴν θάλατταν, ἡ μὲν κερατίνη, ἡ δὲ καθ’ ἣν ἡμεῖσ παρήλθομεν ἐλεφαντίνη. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 33:5)
  • "ὁ Ζεὺσ δ’ ὑών οἴνῳ καπνίᾳ κατὰ τοῦ κεράμου βαλανεύσει, ἀπὸ τῶν δὲ τεγῶν ὀχετοὶ βοτρύων μετὰ ναστίσκων πολυτύρων ὀχετεύσονται θερμῷ σὺν ἔτνει καὶ λειριοπολφανεμώναισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:158)
  • κατασκευάζουσι δέ, φησίν, οἱ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ τὴν ὑάλον μεταρρυθαίζοντεσ πολλαῖσ καὶ ποικίλαισ ἰδέαισ ποτηρίων, παντὸσ τοῦ πανταχόθεν κατακομιζομένου κεράμου τὴν ἰδέαν μιμούμενοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 28 1:1)
  • Λάκαιναι κυλίκων εἶδοσ οὕτωσ λεγόμενον ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ κεράμου, ὡσ τὰ Ἀττικὰ σκεύη, ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ σχήματοσ ἐπιχωριάσαντοσ ἐκεῖ, ὥσπερ αἱ Θηρίκλειαι λέγονται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 691)

Synonyms

  1. potter's clay

  2. earthen vessel

  3. tile

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