κεραμεύς

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ke.ra.měu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke.raˈmews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ce.raˈmeɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ce.raˈmefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ce.raˈmefs/

Noun

κερᾰμεύς • (kerameús) m (genitive κερᾰμέως); third declension

1. potter
   1. (in the plural) guild of potters
2. (figuratively, in the phrases κεραμέως πλοῦτος, κεραμεὺς ἄνθρωπος) something frail and uncertain

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κερᾰμεύς; τοῦ κερᾰμέως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κερᾰμεύς ho kerameús	τὼ κερᾰμῆ tṑ keramê	οἱ κερᾰμῆς / κερᾰμεῖς hoi keramês / kerameîs
Genitive	τοῦ κερᾰμέως toû keraméōs	τοῖν κερᾰμέοιν toîn keraméoin	τῶν κερᾰμέων tôn keraméōn
Dative	τῷ κερᾰμεῖ tôi kerameî	τοῖν κερᾰμέοιν toîn keraméoin	τοῖς κερᾰμεῦσῐ / κερᾰμεῦσῐν toîs kerameûsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κερᾰμέᾱ tòn keraméā	τὼ κερᾰμῆ tṑ keramê	τοὺς κερᾰμέᾱς toùs keraméās
Vocative	κερᾰμεῦ kerameû	κερᾰμῆ keramê	κερᾰμῆς / κερᾰμεῖς keramês / kerameîs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Κεραμεῖς (Kerameîs, “Attic deme”)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • potter idem, page 629.