potsherd

Signification (Anglais)

A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.

Concepts

tesson

baquet

pot

pot de fleurs

godet

pot à fleurs

Synonymes

crock

shard

piece of broken crockery

fragment

container

sherd

tile

pot

flaw

flowerpot

Traductions

Scherbe

casco

Topfscherbe

potscherf

tiesto

coccio

Tonscherbe

test

Holzhammer

θραύσμα αγγείου

Gärtnerin

barattolo

teulís

vaso

🫙

γλάστρα

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɒt.ʃɜːd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pot-sherd

Hérité de moyen anglais: pot

Hérité de ancien anglais: pot

Hérité de moyen anglais: sherd

Hérité de ancien anglais: sceard

In summary

From Middle English pot-sherd, pot-schord, pot scherd, pot scarth, from Middle English pot, pote, potte (“a container, pot, vessel; especially an earthenware vessel”) (from late Old English pot, pott (“a pot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”)) + Middle English sherd (“piece of fired clay or broken earthenware; potsherd”) (from Old English sceard (“a shard, sherd”), from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“a nick, notch”)); equivalent to pot + sherd (“shard”).