χαρακτήρ

Ancient Greek

From χαράσσω (kharássō, “I scratch, engrave”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr, agent noun suffix).

χᾰρᾰκτήρ • (khărăktḗr) m (genitive χᾰρᾰκτῆρος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ χᾰρᾰκτήρ; τοῦ χᾰρᾰκτῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χᾰρᾰκτήρ ho khărăktḗr	τὼ χᾰρᾰκτῆρε tṑ khărăktêre	οἱ χᾰρᾰκτῆρες hoi khărăktêres
Genitive	τοῦ χᾰρᾰκτῆρος toû khărăktêros	τοῖν χᾰρᾰκτήροιν toîn khărăktḗroin	τῶν χᾰρᾰκτήρων tôn khărăktḗrōn
Dative	τῷ χᾰρᾰκτῆρῐ tōî khărăktêrĭ	τοῖν χᾰρᾰκτήροιν toîn khărăktḗroin	τοῖς χᾰρᾰκτῆρσῐ / χᾰρᾰκτῆρσῐν toîs khărăktêrsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν χᾰρᾰκτῆρᾰ tòn khărăktêră	τὼ χᾰρᾰκτῆρε tṑ khărăktêre	τοὺς χᾰρᾰκτῆρᾰς toùs khărăktêrăs
Vocative	χᾰρᾰκτήρ khărăktḗr	χᾰρᾰκτῆρε khărăktêre	χᾰρᾰκτῆρες khărăktêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“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, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], 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 562.
- print idem, page 641.
- stamp idem, page 810.