ceramic

See also: ceràmic

English

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”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈɹæmɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æmɪk

Adjective

ceramic (not comparable)

1. Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

   A ceramic vase stood on the table.

   • 2021 April 5, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• aceramic
• bioceramic
• ceramal
• ceramer
• ceramically
• ceramicist
• ceramicware
• cermet
• electroceramic
• nanoceramic
• nonceramic
• photoceramic
• piezoceramic
• preceramic
• psychoceramic
• vitroceramic

 

Translations

of or pertaining to ceramic as material

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: سِرَميك m (siramīk), سيراميك m (sīrāmīk) (common spelling)

• Armenian: կերամիկական (hy) (keramikakan), կավագործական (kavagorcakan), խեցեգործական (hy) (xecʻegorcakan)
• Azerbaijani: keramika
• Basque: zeramika
• Belarusian: керамічны (kjeramičny)
• Bulgarian: кера́мичен (kerámičen)
• Catalan: ceràmic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陶器 (zh) (táoqì)

• Czech: keramický (cs)
• Esperanto: ceramika
• Finnish: keraaminen (fi)
• French: céramique (fr)
• Friulian: ceramic
• Galician: cerámico (gl) m
• German: keramisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κεραμικός (keramikós)

• Hungarian: kerámia- (hu)
• Ido: ceramikala (io)
• Irish: criaga
• Italian: ceramico (it)
• Norman: céramique
• Polish: ceramiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: cerâmico (pt)
• Romanian: ceramic (ro)
• Russian: керами́ческий (ru) (keramíčeskij)
• Spanish: cerámico (es)
• Turkish: seramik (tr)
• Ukrainian: керамі́чний (keramíčnyj)
• Welsh: seramig, ceramig

Noun

ceramic (countable and uncountable, plural ceramics)

1. (uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.

   Joan made the dish from ceramic.

2. (countable) An object made of this material.

   Joe had dozens of ceramics in his apartment.

   • 2021 April 5, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     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.

Derived terms

• comb ceramic
• glass-ceramic

Descendants

• → Malay: seramik

Translations

material

• Armenian: խեցեղեն (hy) (xecʻeġen), կերամիկա (hy) (keramika)
• Azerbaijani: keramika
• Bulgarian: керамика (bg) f (keramika)
• Catalan: ceràmica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陶瓷 (zh) (táocí)

• Czech: keramika (cs) f, hlína (cs) f
• Dutch: keramiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: ceramiko
• Finnish: keramiikka (fi), keraami (fi)
• French: céramique (fr) f
• Galician: cerámica (gl) f
• German: Keramik (de) f
• Greek: κεραμική (el) f (keramikí)
• Hebrew: קרמיקה (he) f (qeramiqa)
• Hungarian: kerámia (hu), cserép (hu)
• Icelandic: keramik n
• Ido: ceramiko (io)
• Indonesian: keramik (id)
• Italian: ceramica (it) f
• Japanese: 陶器 (ja) (とうき, tōki), 陶芸品 (とうげいひん, tōgeihin), セラミックス (seramikkusu)
• Korean: 세라믹스 (seramikseu)
• Malay: seramik
• Norwegian Bokmål: keramikk m
• Persian: سرامیک (fa) (serâmik)
• Polish: ceramika (pl) f
• Portuguese: cerâmica (pt) f
• Romanian: ceramică (ro) f
• Russian: кера́мика (ru) f (kerámika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: керамика f

  Roman: keramika (sh) f

• Slovene: kerámika (sl) f
• Spanish: cerámica (es) f
• Swedish: keramik (sv)
• Thai: เซรามิก (see-raa-mìk)
• Turkish: seramik (tr)
• Ukrainian: кера́міка (uk) f (kerámika)
• Vietnamese: gốm (vi)
• Yiddish: קעראַמיק f (keramik)

object

• Armenian: խեցեղեն (hy) (xecʻeġen), կերամիկա (hy) (keramika)
• Azerbaijani: keramika
• Bulgarian: кера́мика (bg) f (kerámika)
• Finnish: keramiikkaesine
• Galician: cerámica (gl) f
• Hungarian: kerámia (hu), ^{(please verify)} csempe (hu)
• Portuguese: cerâmica (pt) f
• Turkish: seramik (tr)
• Ukrainian: керамічний виріб m (keramičnyj vyrib)

See also

• kaolin, kaoline

Related terms

• ceramics

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[3]

Anagrams

• racemic

Friulian

Adjective

ceramic

1. ceramic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French céramique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈra.mik/

Adjective

ceramic m or n (feminine singular ceramică, masculine plural ceramici, feminine and neuter plural ceramice)

1. ceramic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	ceramic		ceramică		ceramici	ceramice
	definite	ceramicul		ceramica		ceramicii	ceramicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	ceramic		ceramice		ceramici	ceramice
	definite	ceramicului		ceramicei		ceramicilor	ceramicelor

Further reading

• ceramic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)