Charakter
German (Berlin)
/kaˈraktər/, /karakˈtɛr/, [kʰaʁaktʰ(e)ə̯]
noun
Definitions
- character; the totality of someone's personal qualities
- character, characteristic feature or nature of a thing, place or people
- (becoming dated) character, symbol, written glyph
- (dated) title, rank
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German karacter borrowed from Latin character (branding iron) derived from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (nature, character, type, engraver).
Origin
Ancient Greek
χαρακτήρ
Gloss
nature, character, type, engraver
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
字
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- caract English
- character English
- caracter Latin
- character Latin
- charactērem Latin
- Charakterlosigkeit German
- Charakterschwein German
- Charakterzug German
- Schwein German
- Zug German
- charakterlos German
- karakter Hungarian
- caractère French
- carácter Spanish, Castilian
- χαράσσω Ancient Greek
- χαρακτήρ Ancient Greek
- karakter Norwegian Bokmål
- caractere Portuguese
- caráter Portuguese
- charakter Polish
- karakter Norwegian Nynorsk
- carachtar Irish
- caractere Old French
- garser Old French
- ĥaraktero Esperanto
- caràcter Catalan, Valencian
- caracter Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- caracter Middle Dutch
- raksturs Latvian
- raksturīgs Latvian
- raksturīgums Latvian
- caractar Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- karacter Middle High German
- Charakter Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- карактер Macedonian
- carátura Old Spanish