1. κέραμος · keramos — Beekes
The corpus record
κέραμος
keramos
potter
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Where it lives
- Acharnians 5 · 7.04/10k
- Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
- Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
- Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
- Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
- Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
- Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
- History 3 · 0.2/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
- Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. κέραμος · keramos — Chantraine
3. κέραμος · keramos — Frisk
4. κέραμος · keramos — Frisk
5. κέρᾰμος · keramos — LSJ
potterʼs earth, potterʼs clay, Pl. Ti. 60d, Arist. Mete. 384b19, etc.; κ. ὠμός, ὀπτώμενος, ib. 380b8, 383a21.
anything made of this earth, as
earthen vessel, wine-jar, ἐκ κεράμων μέθυ πίνετο Il. 9.469, cf. Hdt. 3.96; in collective sense, pottery, Ar. Ach. 902, Men. Sam. 75, al.; κ. ἐσάγεται πλήρης οἴνου jars full of wine, Hdt. 3.6, cf. 5.88, Alex. 257.3, etc.
jar of other material, κ. ἀργυροῦς Ptol.Euerg. 7J.
tile, Ar. V. 1295 (of a tortoiseʼs shell); collectively, tiling, τοῦ τέγους τὸν κέραμον αὐτοῦ χαλάζαις . . ξυντρίψομεν Id. Nu. 1127, cf. Fr. 349, Th. 2.4; Κορίνθιος κ. IG 2(2).1668.58; Λακωνικός ib. 463.69, 1672.188; roof, Pherecr. 130.6, Herod. 3.44, Gal. 8.26, 9.824.
pottery (i.e. place of manufacture), ὁ κ. ὁ χυτρικός Tab.Defix.Praef. p.iib.
dungeon (said by Sch. to be Cyprian), χαλκέῳ ἐν κεράμῳ δέδετο Il. 5.387, cf. Thphr. Char. 6.6 cod. M; pl., Nonn. D. 16.162. (Possibly cogn. with Lat. cremo.)
In the wild
- κέραμον · keramon Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 729)
- κέραμον · keramon Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 690)
- κέραμον · keramon Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 691)
- κέραμον · keramon Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 695)
- κέραμον · keramon Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 718)
- κέραμον · keramon Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 877)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. κέραμος (scan pp. 721-722; entry #3074). Root candidates: *kerH-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. κέραμος (scan p. 530; entry #3842).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. κέραμος (scan pp. 855-856; entry #2923).
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