Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xaraktír/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xaraktír/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xaɾaktíɾ/

Noun

χαρακτήρ • ‎(kharaktḗr) m ‎(genitive χαρακτῆρος); third declension

1. instrument used for engraving
2. person who engraves, engraver
3. impress, stamp, seal
4. reproduction, representation
5. figure, letter, character
6. characteristic, character
7. style

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: character
• Russian: хара́ктер m ‎(xarákter)

References

• χαρακτήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χαρακτήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χαρακτήρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5481”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • die idem, page 222.
  • impress idem, page 423.
  • impression idem, page 423.
  • imprint idem, page 424.
  • mark idem, page 514.
  • notch idem, page 561.
  • print idem, page 641.
  • stamp idem, page 810.