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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κέρᾰμος (kéramos, “pottery”) + -εύς (-eús, suffix for person concerned).
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀐𐀨𐀕𐀄 (ke-ra-me-u /kerameus/, “potter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ke.ra.měu̯s/ → /ce.raˈmeɸs/ → /ce.raˈmefs/
Noun
κερᾰμεύς • (kerameús) m (genitive κερᾰμέως); third declension
- potter
- (in the plural) guild of potters
- (figuratively, in the phrases κεραμέως πλοῦτος, κεραμεὺς ἄνθρωπος) something frail and uncertain
Inflection
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References
- “κεραμεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κεραμεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κεραμεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κεραμεύς 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
- κεραμεύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2763 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.