English Explanatory Dictionary

ceramic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.
noun
  1. A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.
  2. An object made of this material.

Pronunciation

/səˈɹæmɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ceramic.wav

Word forms

ceramic more ceramic most ceramic keramic ceramics

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κεραμικός (keramikós, “potter's”), from κέραμος (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word or from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂- (“to heat, burn, fire”).

Related words

kaolin kaoline ceramics

Derived words

aceramic bioceramic ceramal ceramer ceramically ceramicist ceramicware cermet electroceramic nanoceramic nonceramic photoceramic piezoceramic preceramic psychoceramic vitroceramic comb ceramic glass-ceramic

Translations

Armenian: խեցեղեն Armenian: կերամիկա Azerbaijani: keramika Bulgarian: керамика Catalan: ceràmica Chinese Mandarin: 陶瓷 Czech: keramika Czech: hlína Dutch: keramiek Esperanto: ceramiko Finnish: keramiikka Finnish: keraami French: céramique Galician: cerámica German: Keramik Greek: κεραμική Hebrew: קרמיקה Hungarian: kerámia Hungarian: cserép Icelandic: keramik Ido: ceramiko Indonesian: keramik Italian: ceramica Japanese: 陶器 Japanese: 陶芸品 Japanese: セラミックス Korean: 세라믹스 Malay: seramik Norwegian Bokmål: keramikk Persian: سرامیک Polish: ceramika Portuguese: cerâmica Romanian: ceramică Russian: кера́мика Serbo-Croatian: керамика Serbo-Croatian: keramika Slovene: kerámika Spanish: cerámica Swedish: keramik Thai: เซรามิก Turkish: seramik Ukrainian: кера́міка Vietnamese: gốm Yiddish: קעראַמיק
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