The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκηρός“wax”
- English todaykerolite
From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, kero- + -lite.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκηρός all →
ceromancykero-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.