κεραμικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κέραμος (kéramos) +‎ -ικός (-ikós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ke.ra.mi.kós/ → /ce.ra.miˈkos/ → /ce.ra.miˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ke.ra.mi.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke.ra.miˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ce.ra.miˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ce.ra.miˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ce.ra.miˈkos/

Adjective

κερᾰμῐκός • (kerămĭkós) m (feminine κερᾰμῐκή, neuter κερᾰμῐκόν); first/second declension

1. of or for pottery, of a potter

Declension

First and second declension of κερᾰμῐκός; κερᾰμῐκή; κερᾰμῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		κερᾰμῐκός kerămĭkós	κερᾰμῐκή kerămĭkḗ	κερᾰμῐκόν kerămĭkón		κερᾰμῐκώ kerămĭkṓ	κερᾰμῐκᾱ́ kerămĭkā́	κερᾰμῐκώ kerămĭkṓ		κερᾰμῐκοί kerămĭkoí	κερᾰμῐκαί kerămĭkaí	κερᾰμῐκᾰ́ kerămĭkắ
Genitive		κερᾰμῐκοῦ kerămĭkoû	κερᾰμῐκῆς kerămĭkês	κερᾰμῐκοῦ kerămĭkoû		κερᾰμῐκοῖν kerămĭkoîn	κερᾰμῐκαῖν kerămĭkaîn	κερᾰμῐκοῖν kerămĭkoîn		κερᾰμῐκῶν kerămĭkôn	κερᾰμῐκῶν kerămĭkôn	κερᾰμῐκῶν kerămĭkôn
Dative		κερᾰμῐκῷ kerămĭkōî	κερᾰμῐκῇ kerămĭkēî	κερᾰμῐκῷ kerămĭkōî		κερᾰμῐκοῖν kerămĭkoîn	κερᾰμῐκαῖν kerămĭkaîn	κερᾰμῐκοῖν kerămĭkoîn		κερᾰμῐκοῖς kerămĭkoîs	κερᾰμῐκαῖς kerămĭkaîs	κερᾰμῐκοῖς kerămĭkoîs
Accusative		κερᾰμῐκόν kerămĭkón	κερᾰμῐκήν kerămĭkḗn	κερᾰμῐκόν kerămĭkón		κερᾰμῐκώ kerămĭkṓ	κερᾰμῐκᾱ́ kerămĭkā́	κερᾰμῐκώ kerămĭkṓ		κερᾰμῐκούς kerămĭkoús	κερᾰμῐκᾱ́ς kerămĭkā́s	κερᾰμῐκᾰ́ kerămĭkắ
Vocative		κερᾰμῐκέ kerămĭké	κερᾰμῐκή kerămĭkḗ	κερᾰμῐκόν kerămĭkón		κερᾰμῐκώ kerămĭkṓ	κερᾰμῐκᾱ́ kerămĭkā́	κερᾰμῐκώ kerămĭkṓ		κερᾰμῐκοί kerămĭkoí	κερᾰμῐκαί kerămĭkaí	κερᾰμῐκᾰ́ kerămĭkắ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		κερᾰμῐκῶς kerămĭkôs				κερᾰμῐκώτερος kerămĭkṓteros				κερᾰμῐκώτᾰτος kerămĭkṓtătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: кера́мика (kerámika)
• → Catalan: ceràmic
• → Czech: keramika
• → Danish: keramik
• → Dutch: keramiek
  • → Indonesian: keramik
• → English: ceramic
  • → Malay: seramik
• → Esperanto: ceramiko, ceramika
• →⇒ Finnish: keraaminen
• → French: céramique
  • → Norman: céramique
  • → Polish: ceramika
  • → Romanian: ceramic
  • → Turkish: seramik
• → Friulian: ceramic
• → German: Keramik
• → Icelandic: keramik
• → Italian: ceramico
• → Lithuanian: keramika
• → Macedonian: керамика (keramika)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: keramikk
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: keramikk
• → Portuguese: cerâmico
• → Russian: кера́мика (kerámika)
• → Serbo-Croatian: keràmika
• → Spanish: cerámico
• → Swedish: keramik
• → Ukrainian: кераміка (keramika)
• → Yiddish: קעראַמיק (keramik)

Further reading

• κεραμικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κεραμικός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κεραμικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G2764 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.
  • ceramic idem, page 122.
  • pottery idem, page 629.