ceramic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ceramic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ceramic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: keramic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: ceramics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: keramic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.
pos: adj
examples: A ceramic vase stood on the table.
And over the past year, a new crop of collaborations between designers and artists has turned a spotlight on ceramic sculptures characterized by organic and biomorphic forms.
gloss: A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, made by firing a material such as clay at a high temperature.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Joan made the dish from ceramic.
gloss: An object made of this material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Joe had dozens of ceramics in his apartment.
Photographed by Juergen Teller, the project included a series of JW Anderson women’s wear looks, still-life images and sketches of Ms. Odundo and Ms. Corbett’s ceramics, as well as their portraits, and blankets designed as part of the collaboration.
Related words: kaolin
kaoline
ceramics
Derived words: comb ceramic
glass-ceramic
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: qeramike
lang: Arabic
word: خَزَف
roman: ḵazaf
lang: Armenian
word: խեցեղեն
roman: xecʻeġen
lang: Armenian
word: կերամիկա
roman: keramika
lang: Azerbaijani
word: keramika
lang: Belarusian
word: кера́міка
roman: kjerámika
lang: Bulgarian
word: кера́мика
roman: kerámika
lang: Catalan
word: ceràmica
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 陶瓷
roman: táocí
lang: Czech
word: keramika
lang: Czech
word: hlína
lang: Danish
word: keramik
lang: Dutch
word: keramiek
lang: Esperanto
word: ceramiko
lang: Estonian
word: keraamika
lang: Finnish
word: keramiikka
lang: Finnish
word: keraami
lang: French
word: céramique
lang: Galician
word: cerámica
lang: Georgian
word: კერამიკა
roman: ḳeramiḳa
lang: German
word: Keramik
lang: Greek
word: κεραμική
roman: keramikí
lang: Hebrew
word: קֶרָמִיקָה
roman: kerámika
lang: Hindi
word: मृत्तिका कृति
roman: mŕttikā kŕti
lang: Hungarian
word: kerámia
lang: Hungarian
word: cserép
lang: Icelandic
word: keramik
lang: Ido
word: ceramiko
lang: Indonesian
word: keramik
lang: Irish
word: ceirmeach
lang: Italian
word: ceramica
lang: Japanese
word: 陶器
roman: tōki
lang: Japanese
word: 陶芸品
roman: tōgeihin
lang: Japanese
word: セラミックス
roman: seramikkusu
lang: Kazakh
word: керамика
roman: keramika
lang: Korean
word: 세라믹스
roman: seramikseu
lang: Korean
word: 세라믹
roman: seramik
lang: Kyrgyz
word: керамика
roman: keramika
lang: Lao
word: ເຊລາມິກ
roman: sē lā mik
lang: Latvian
word: keramika
lang: Lithuanian
word: keramika
lang: Macedonian
word: керамика
roman: keramika
lang: Malay
word: seramik
lang: Mongolian
word: керамик
roman: keramik
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: keramikk
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سِرامیک
roman: serâmik
lang: Polish
word: ceramika
lang: Portuguese
word: cerâmica
lang: Romanian
word: ceramică
lang: Russian
word: кера́мика
roman: kerámika
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: кера̀мика
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: keràmika
lang: Slovak
word: keramika
lang: Slovene
word: kerámika
lang: Spanish
word: cerámica
lang: Swedish
word: keramik
lang: Tajik
word: кулолӣ
roman: kuloli
lang: Thai
word: เซรามิก
roman: see-raa-mìk
lang: Turkish
word: seramik
lang: Ukrainian
word: кера́міка
roman: kerámika
lang: Uzbek
word: keramika
lang: Vietnamese
word: gốm
lang: Yiddish
word: קעראַמיק
roman: keramik