The corpus record — Latin

character

character · m

An instrument for branding

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Where it lives

Eunuchus 2 · 1.84/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k

What it meant

chăracter — Lewis & Short

chăracter, ēris, m., = xarakth/r.

I An instrument for branding or marking, etc.: character est ferrum coloratum, quo notae pecudibus inuruntur, xarakth/r autem Graece, Latine forma dicitur, Isid. Orig. 20, 16, 7.—

II Usu., the mark or sign burned or imprinted.

A Prop. (esp. upon animals): quadrupedia charactere signare, Col. 11, 2, 14; Pall. Jan. 16: characterem infigere alicui, Aug. Contr. Cresc. 1, 30.—

B Trop., a characteristic, mark, character, style, etc. (only ante- and postclass.): Luciliano charactere libelli, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 17; Serv. ad Verg. E. 3, 1; Diom. p. 481 P. (cf. Cic. Or. 39, 134; id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 5; and Gell. 7, 14, 1, in which passages it is written as Greek).

Where it came from

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