different between character vs manus

English

Etymology

From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??kt?/
• Hyphenation: char?ac?ter

Noun

character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)

1. (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
2. (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.

3. (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.

   • A man of […] thoroughly subservient character

4. (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

5. (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

6. (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.

7. (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
8. (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
9. (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
10. (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.

11. (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
12. (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

13. (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

    • This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

14. (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
15. (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.

Usage notes

Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Pages starting with “character”.

Translations

Verb

character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)

1. (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.

See also

• codepoint
• font
• glyph
• letter
• symbol
• rune
• pictogram

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]

Noun

character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension

1. branding iron
2. brand (made by a branding iron)
3. characteristic, mark, character, style

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Hungarian: karakter
• Galician: caritel; ? carácter
• Irish: carachtar
• Italian: carattere
• Old French: caractere
  • ? English: character
  • French: caractère
• Polish: charakter
  • ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
• Portuguese: caractere, carácter
• Sicilian: caràttiri
• Spanish: carácter

References

• character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

character m (plural characteres)

1. Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manus (“hand”).

Noun

manus (plural manus)

1. (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
2. (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Suman, Usman, namus, suman

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• manusz

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani manu?, from Sanskrit ?????? (manu?ya, “man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?nu?]
• Hyphenation: ma?nus
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

manus (plural manusok)

1. (colloquial) guy, man, bloke
   • 2012, Judit Szántó (translator), Kathy Reichs, Csont és b?r (Death du Jour), Ulpius-ház ?ISBN, chapter 11, page 169:

     A manus bólintott, és h?séges kutyaszemmel tapadt az arcára. ¶ – Viszlát – biccentett kecsesen Harry, mire a manus vállat vont, és beleveszett a tömegbe.

Declension

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *manus, from Proto-Indo-European *méh?-r? ~ *mh?-én-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (már?), Old Norse mund, Old English mund. More at mound.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.nus/, [?män?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.nus/, [?m??nus]

Noun

manus f (genitive man?s); fourth declension

1. hand
2. (figuratively) bravery, valor
3. (figuratively) violence, fighting
4. (metonymically) handwriting
5. a side, part, faction
6. a stake (in dice)
7. a thrust with a sword
8. paw of an animal
9. trunk of an elephant
10. branch of a tree
11. (military, nautical) grappling hooks used to snare enemy vessels
12. group, company, host, multitude of people, especially of soldiers

13. labor
14. power, might
    • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:2

      et tradidit Dominus in manu eius Ioachim regem Iudae

      "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand."

15. (law) legal power of a man over his wife
16. (law) an arrest
17. group of people
18. band

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (hand): hir, ir (both rare)

Derived terms

Related terms

• mancus

Descendants

See also

• p?s

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *meh?- (“timely, opportune”); hence also imm?nis (“vast, monstrous”).

Alternative forms

• m?nis

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma?.nus/, [?mä?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.nus/, [?m??nus]

Adjective

m?nus (feminine m?na, neuter m?num); first/second-declension adjective

2. (Old Latin) good

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• m?ne

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.nu?s/, [?mänu?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.nus/, [?m??nus]

Noun

man?s

1. inflection of manus:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

References

• manus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• manus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• manus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• manus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• manus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 740

Latvian

Pronoun

manus

1. accusative plural masculine form of mans

Swedish

Noun

manus n

1. Clipping of manuskript (“screenplay”).

Declension