2. layer of mud or clay forming the floor of the wrestling-ring in the times of the Empire, Lat. ceroma, locus exercitii utilis . . aequali et molli ceromate stratus, Cael.Aur.Salut.Praec.35 (ed.V.Rose Anecd.Gr.2.199), cf. Plu.2.638c, Plin.HN35.168, Mart.4.19.5, al.; a ceromate nos haphe excepit, out of the mud into the dust, Sen.Ep.57.1: metaph. for the wrestling-ring or wrestling, “ἐν παλαίστραις καὶ κηρώμασι” Plu.2.790f, cf. Plin.HN35.5.
3. waxed tablet or board, IG7.413.59 (S. C. de Orop.).