carácter

carácter m (plural caracteres)

1. character

• Hyphenation: ca‧rác‧ter

carácter m (plural caracteres)

1. (Portugal) alternative form of caráter

• “carácter”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “carácter”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin character.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾaɡteɾ/ [kaˈɾaɣ̞.t̪eɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɡteɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧rác‧ter

carácter m (plural caracteres or carácteres)

1. character (traits marking a person or group)

   Puede que la diferencia de edad o los caracteres no resultaran compatibles en ese momento.

   The age difference or their characters might not have been compatible at the time.

2. character (moral strength)
3. character (symbol for a sound or word)

   Synonym: caracter

   Ahora los usuarios de Twitter pueden utilizar hasta 280 caracteres al enviar un tuit.

   Now Twitter users can use up to 280 characters when sending a tweet.

4. character (mathematics)

   Synonym: caracter

• The word carácter is not used to mean a character as in "a person from a story or video game"; a more appropriate translation in this context is personaje.
• The plural carácteres is proscribed^[1] and only used for senses 1 & 2.

• “carácter”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025