χαρακτήρ
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- instrument used for engraving
- person who engraves, engraver
- impress, stamp, seal
- reproduction, representation
- figure, letter, character
- characteristic, character
- style
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek χαράσσω (I scratch, inscribe, engrave).
Origin
Ancient Greek
χαράσσω
Gloss
I scratch, inscribe, engrave
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bicharacter English
- biocharacter English
- caract English
- character English
- character reference English
- characterful English
- characterhood English
- characterisation English
- characterise English
- characterism English
- characterize English
- characterless English
- characterlike English
- characterologist English
- characterology English
- characteropathy English
- characterwise English
- charactonym English
- cocharacter English
- demicharacter English
- escape character English
- intercharacter English
- lead character English
- metacharacter English
- microcharacter English
- multicharacter English
- noncharacter English
- pseudocharacter English
- subcharacter English
- supercharacter English
- caracter Latin
- character Latin
- charactērem Latin
- karakter Hungarian
- carattere Italian
- caractère French
- carácter Spanish, Castilian
- χάρτης Ancient Greek
- χαράσσω Ancient Greek
- *ǵʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- karakter Norwegian Bokmål
- karakterisere Norwegian Bokmål
- caractere Portuguese
- caráter Portuguese
- ゆるキャラ Japanese
- charakter Polish
- karakter Norwegian Nynorsk
- caracter Middle English
- garsen Middle English
- carachtar Irish
- caractere Old French
- garser Old French
- ĥaraktero Esperanto
- caràcter Catalan, Valencian
- caracter Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- χαράζω Greek (modern)
- karakter Cebuano
- caracter Middle Dutch
- caractar Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- karacter Middle High German
- garser Middle French
- карактер Macedonian
- 캐릭터 Korean
- carátura Old Spanish
- caraxāre LL