χαρακτήρ
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰa.rak.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰa.rakˈter/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xa.rakˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xa.rakˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xa.rakˈtir/
Noun
χᾰρᾰκτήρ • (kharaktḗr) m (genitive χᾰρᾰκτῆρος); third declension
- instrument used for engraving
- person who engraves, engraver
- impress, stamp, seal
- reproduction, representation
- figure, letter, character
- characteristic, character
- style
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ χᾰρᾰκτήρ ho kharaktḗr |
τὼ χᾰρᾰκτῆρε tṑ kharaktêre |
οἱ χᾰρᾰκτῆρες hoi kharaktêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χᾰρᾰκτῆρος toû kharaktêros |
τοῖν χᾰρᾰκτήροιν toîn kharaktḗroin |
τῶν χᾰρᾰκτήρων tôn kharaktḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χᾰρᾰκτῆρῐ tôi kharaktêri |
τοῖν χᾰρᾰκτήροιν toîn kharaktḗroin |
τοῖς χᾰρᾰκτῆρσῐ / χᾰρᾰκτῆρσῐν toîs kharaktêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν χᾰρᾰκτῆρᾰ tòn kharaktêra |
τὼ χᾰρᾰκτῆρε tṑ kharaktêre |
τοὺς χᾰρᾰκτῆρᾰς toùs kharaktêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | χᾰρᾰκτήρ kharaktḗr |
χᾰρᾰκτῆρε kharaktêre |
χᾰρᾰκτῆρες kharaktêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: character
- Greek: χαρακτήρας (charaktíras)
- → Russian: хара́ктер (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.
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