ceratium

See also: Ceratium

English

From Latin cerātium (“carob”), from Ancient Greek κερᾱ́τῐον (kerā́tion, “little horn, carob”), diminutive of κέρᾰς (kéras, “horn”). Doublet of carat, karat, and quilate.

ceratium

From Ancient Greek κερᾱ́τῐον (kerā́tion, “little horn, carob”), diminutive of κέρᾰς (kéras, “horn”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /keˈraː.ti.um/, [kɛˈräːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈrat.t͡si.um/, [t͡ʃeˈrät̪ː͡s̪ium]

cerātium n (genitive cerātiī or cerātī); second declension

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Translingual descendants

“ceratium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ceratium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
ceratium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“cerātium” on page 330/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)