different between character vs mun

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 1

From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-Germanic *munan?.

Alternative forms

• maun

Verb

mun

1. (dialect, Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must.

References

Etymology 2

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-; compare mouth

Noun

mun (plural muns)

1. (obsolete, dialect) The mouth, jaw.

Etymology 3

Noun

mun

1. (Britain, dialect) man

Pronoun

mun

1. (Britain, dialect, Devon, Somerset, obsolete) them
   • 1746, Exmoor Courtship 1879 edition[2], page 50:

     tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun

References

Etymology 4

Clipping of mundane.

Noun

mun (plural muns)

1. (role-playing games, Internet slang) The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mun.

Synonyms

• roleplayer, RPer

Anagrams

• Num., nmu, num, num.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Noun

mun f

1. (anatomy) hand

Finnish

Pronoun

mun

1. (colloquial) Genitive form of mä.
2. (dialectal) Accusative form of mä.

See also

• minun

Gothic

Romanization

mun

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Verb

mun

1. singular first-person present indicative of munu

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Pronoun

mun

1. I

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Irish

Contraction

mun

1. Contraction of um + an.

Mutation

Further reading

• "mun" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *?mun (“illness, pain”). Cognate with White Hmong mob and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] mb.

Noun

mun 

1. pain

Middle English

Verb

mun

1. Alternative form of mone (“shall”)

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?mun/

Pronoun

mun

1. I

Inflection

See also

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[7], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

mun

1. present tense of muna

Etymology 2

From Old Norse munr, from Proto-Germanic *muniz.

Noun

mun m (definite singular munen, indefinite plural muner, definite plural munene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by mon

Polish

Etymology

Perhaps from Vietnamese (cánh) m?ng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mun/

Noun

mun m inan (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) Mun mushroom

Further reading

• mun in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mun in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Verb

mun

1. (modal auxiliary, defective) Alternative form of maun
   • 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village

     Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Fro mu + an.

Preposition

mun

1. about the, about their, about my, about whom, about which
2. concerning the, concerning their, concerning my, concerning whom, concerning which

See also

• mu

Further reading

• “mun” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English moon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mun/

Noun

mun

1. moon
2. month

Related terms

• munde

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish munder, from Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?n/, [m?n?]

Noun

mun c

1. (anatomy) a mouth

Declension

Related terms

References

• mun in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Pronoun

mun

1. I

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[8], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English moon.

Noun

mun

1. moon
2. month

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English moon.

Noun

mun

1. moon

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *?u?? (“ashes”); cognate with Muong bunh.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [mun??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [mun??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [m?w??m??]

Noun

mun • (?)

1. (North Central Vietnam) ashes
2. (botany) ebony

Synonyms

• tro; gio

Adjective

mun • (?)

1. (of a cat, otherwise rare) black

   Synonym: ?en

See also

• m?c
• ô

Volapük

Noun

mun (nominative plural muns)

1. moon (planetary satellite)

Declension

Welsh

Noun

mun

1. (slang) equivalent to the man in English, as in you, you man, you bloke, dude, guy, mate