κεράτιον, κερατιου, τό (diminutive of κέρας); 1. a little horn. 2. the name of the fruit of the κερατέα or κερατεια (or κερατια), the Ceratonia sillqua (Linn.) or carob tree (called also St. John's Bread (from the notion that its pods, which resemble those of the 'locust', constituted the food of the Baptist)). This fruit is shaped like a horn and has a sweet taste; it was (and is) used not only in fattening swine, but as an article of food by the lower classes: Luk_15:16 (A. V. husks); cf. Winers RWB, under the word Johannisbrodbaum; (B. D. (especially American edition) under the word ).

κεράτιον keration 1x pr. a little horn; in NT a pod, the pod of the carob tree, or Ceratonia siliqua of Linnaeus, a common tree in the East and the south of Europe, growing to a considerable size, and producing long slender pods, with a pulp of a sweetish taste, and several brown shining seeds like beans, sometimes eaten by the poorer people in Syria and Palestine, and commonly used for fattening swine, Luk_15:16

* κεράτιον , -ου , τό (dimin. of κέρας ), 1. a little horn ( Arist .). 2. In pl. (the fruit of the κερατέα ), carob-pods: Luk_15:16 .†

κεράτιον [page 341] In P Lond 131* .7 (A.D. 78) (= I. p. 189) κεράτ (ια ) is used of the fruit of the carob, as in Luk_15:16 : cf. P Leid X xii. 35 (medical prescription iii/iv AD.) (= p. 237) ἀκάνθης κεράτια . From v/A.D. onwards the word is used in Egypt, like the Latin siliqua , of a money measure, the carat : see e.g. P Oxy I. 154 verso (vii/A.D.) with the editor s notes, and Chrest. I. i. p. lxvii.

κεράτιον κερά_τιον, ου, τό, [Etym: Dim. of κέρας, v. sub κερατέα.]

κεράτιον, -ου, τό (dimin. of κέρας), __1. a little horn (Arist.). __2. In pl. (the fruit of the κερατέα), carob-pods: Luk.15:16.† (AS)