κεραία (keraia)

Where it lives

Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
History 5 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

κεραία · keraia — LSJ

horn

horn, Nic. Th. 36, Opp. C. 3.476.

2 antennae

antennae of the crayfish or of insects, Arist. HA 526a6. 532a26.

II anything projecting like a horn

anything projecting like a horn: hence,

1 yard-arm

yard-arm, A. Eu. 557 (lyr.), Th. 7.41, IG 2(2).657, 1604.17, PMagd. 11.4 (iii B.C.), etc.; κ. καθελέσθαι, ὑφιέναι, i.e. lower sail, Plb. 14.10.11, Plu. Superst. 2.169b; opp. ἐντείνασθαι Call. Fr.anon. 382; ἀπὸ ψιλῆς τῆς κ. ‘under bare poles’, Luc. Tox. 19.

b projecting beam

projecting beam of a crane, etc., Th. 2.76, cf. 4.100, IG ΙΙ(2).161 A 90 (Delos, iii B. C.), Ph. Bel. 100.18, Plb. 8.5.10, Arr. An. 2.19.2.

c projecting parts

projecting parts of the hucklebone, Arist. HA 499b30.

d branching stake of wood, pale

branching stake of wood, used as a pale in a palisade, Plb. 18.18.7, App. BC 4.78.

e horns of the ancilia

horns of the ancilia, Plu. Num. 13.

2 horns

pl., horns of the moon, Arat. 785, 790.

3 apex, word

in writing, apex of a letter, IG 2.4321.10 (iv B.C.), A.D. Synt. 28.27, cf. Ev.Matt. 5.18, Ev.Luc. 16.17, Antyll. ap. Orib. 45.57.4; ζυγομαχεῖν περὶ συλλαβῶν καὶ κ. Plu. Suav. 2.1100a; διὰ πάσης κ. διῆκον showing itself in every word of a speech, D.H. Din. 7.

4 leg

leg of a pair of compasses, S.E. M. 10.54.

5 projecting spur, horns, arms

projecting spur of a mountain, Plu. Cat.Ma. 13; of the horns of Europe and Africa at the Straits of Gibraltar, AP 4.3b.40 (Agath.); arms of a harbour, Philostr. VS 1.21.2.

6 wing

= κέρας V.3, wing of an army, Hld. 9.20.

7 projections, Fallopian tubes

pl., supposed teat-like projections inside the womb, Diocl. Fr. 27; but the Fallopian tubes, Gal. UP 14.11, Ruf. Onom. 194.

III bow made of horn

bow made of horn, AP 6.75 (Paul.Sil.).

In the wild

κεραίας · keraias Aeschylus, Eumenides 553–557
κεραιῶν · keraiōn Thucydides, History 2.76.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1496)
κεραίαν · keraian Thucydides, History 4.100.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3159)
κεραίας · keraias Thucydides, History 4.100.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3159)
κεραίας · keraias Thucydides, History 4.100.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3161)
κεραῖαι · keraiai Thucydides, History 7.41.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5031)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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