charakter

Directly borrowed from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr). Doublet of character.

charakter (plural charakteres)

1. a glyph with no agreed semantic or phonetic value, generally formed by deforming a letter of the Greek alphabet or a simple geometric symbol via one of several predefined processes, used as part of magical texts in the Hellenistic world
   • 2004, Angelos Chaniotis, Thomas Corsten, R. S. Stroud, and Rolf Tybout [editors], Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, volume LIV, page 660:

     […] (yellow diasper; inscription in a circle enclosing magical charakteres on two lines; other letters (?) and charakteres on the rim; scorpion on the reverse; 3rd cent. A.D.; N. 660/661) […]

   • 2011, György Németh, “Sequences of charakteres in some circus defixiones in Latin from Hadrumetum”:

     Among the roughly forty curse-tablets found, mainly by French army officers in the late nineteenth century, at Hadrumetum, is a group of texts exhibiting a common feature, namely that they contain recurring sequences of charakteres. In this form they have not been found elsewhere; moreover, the individual charakteres are also different from magic signs found elsewhere.

   • 2014, Richard Gordon, “Charaktêres between Antiquity and Renaissance: Transmission and Re-invention”:

     The great majority of charaktêres, like the majority of voces magicae, were never memorized – they were simply produced on one occasion. That is why there could be so many of them. We shall see this principle emphatically re-asserted in the medieval and early-modern shift from the charaktêr to the sigillum.

   • 2019, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, page 337:

     Such hissings and poppings are not the only incomprehensible signs that the theurgists use to make contact with the divine; various sources make mention of charakteres, incomprehensible drawn figures that seem to resemble letters or images but without any clear iconic resemblance.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxaraktɛr]

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charakter m inan

1. character (moral strength)
2. character (features)

   Synonyms: ráz, povaha

• charakterizace f
• charakterizovat
• charakteristický
• charakteristika f
• bezcharakterní

• charakter in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• charakter in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /xaˈrak.tɛr/

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• Rhymes: -aktɛr
• Syllabification: cha‧rak‧ter

charakter m inan

1. personality

   Rozwiedliśmy się ze względu na niezgodność charakterów.

   We divorced due to incompatible personalities.

2. nature, features

   Synonyms: barwa, zabarwienie

   Działania na terytorium Ukrainy mają charakter wojenny.

   The activity on the territory of Ukraine has the features of war.

3. (formal, law) role

   Czy wezmę udział w procesie w charakterze świadka czy pokrzywdzonego?

   Will I take part in the trial as a witness or as a victim?

• → Russian: хара́ктер (xarákter)

• charakter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• charakter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): [ˈxarakter]

charakter m (genitive singular charakteru, nominative plural charaktery, genitive plural charakterov, declension pattern of dub)

1. character (moral strength)
2. character (features)

• ráz
• povaha

• charakteristický
• charakteristika f
• charakterizácia f
• charakterizovať
• charakterný / bezcharakterný
• charakterový
• charakterovo, charakterove

• charakter in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk