κέραμος

Unknown. Has long been compared to κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix”), but could also be related to Latin cremō, Proto-West Germanic *herþ (English hearth), or Sanskrit कूडयति (kūḍayati, “to burn, scorch”). Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek or Anatolian origin.

Related is κερᾰμεύς (kerameús, “potter”), which has a cognate in Mycenaean Greek 𐀐𐀨𐀕𐀄 (ke-ra-me-u /⁠kerameus⁠/) of the same meaning.

κέρᾰμος • (kéramos) m (genitive κερᾰ́μου); second declension

1. potter's clay
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 60D
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 384B.19
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 380B.8
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 383A.21
2. earthen vessel, pottery, wine-jar
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.469
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.96
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 902
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl from Samos 75
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.6
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.88
   • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis, The Fugitive 1.3
3. tile
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1295
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1127
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.4
   • 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Fragmenta 130.6
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 3.44
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 8.26
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 9.824

• κερᾰμῐκός (keramikós)
• κεράμῐνος (keráminos)
• κεραμεύς (kerameús)
• κερᾰμῐ́ς (keramís)

• “κέραμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κέραμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κέραμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κέραμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• κέραμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G2766 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κέραμος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • clay idem, page 136.
  • crockery idem, page 185.
  • pot idem, page 629.
  • potter idem, page 629.
  • pottery idem, page 629.
  • roof idem, page 721.
  • slate idem, page 782.
  • tile idem, page 874.
  • tiling idem, page 874.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN