chăractērismŏs — Lewis & Short
chăractērismŏs (-mus), i, m., = xarakthrismo/s
I characterization, the making prominent of the characteristic marks, rhet. t. t. (pure Lat. descriptio, depictio), Isid. Orig. 2, 21, 40; Porphyr. ad Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 7.
The corpus record — Latin
characterismos
characterismos · m
characterization
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Where it lives
- Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- characterismon Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.65
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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