Ancient Greek

Noun

κερᾱ́τῐον • ‎(kerā́tion) n ‎(genitive κερᾱτῐ́ου); second declension

1. small horn
   1. (zoology) antenna of the cerambycid or of the hermit crab
   2. (in the plural) curved ends of the womb
   3. (music) a musical instrument (perhaps a fife or clarionet)
2. carat, 1/1728 of a pound
3. (botany) carob, Ceratonia siliqua
4. fruit of the carob

Declension

Synonyms

• (carob, Ceratonia siliqua): κερᾱτωνῐ́ᾱ ‎(kerātōníā), κερωνῐ́ᾱ ‎(kerōníā), κερᾱτέᾱ ‎(kerātéā), κερᾱτῐ́ᾱ ‎(kerātíā)
• (carob fruit): κερᾱ́τῐᾰ ‎(kerā́tia)

Descendants

• Arabic: قيراط ‎(qirāṭ)
  • Italian: carato
    • Middle French: carat
      • English: carat
  • Portuguese: quirate, quilate (later)
  • Spanish: quirate, quilate (later)
• Latin: cerātium

References

• κεράτιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κεράτιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κεράτιον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2769”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κεράτιον» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften