Etymology

charakter

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ
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  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromχαρακτήρ
  2. English todaycharakter

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

Words from the same roots

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