carachtar

From Old Irish carachtar,^[1] from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “to engrave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾˠəxt̪ˠəɾˠ/

carachtar m (genitive singular carachtair, nominative plural carachtair)

1. character

• carachtracht f (“characterization”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carachtar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “carachtar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “carachtar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• caractar, cáractar, cárachtar

From Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “to engrave”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaraxtar]

carachtar n (genitive carachtair, nominative plural carachtra)

1. character
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)

     Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.

     Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two charac­ters in those conso­nants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

• Irish: carachtar

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cárachtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language