Character, huius charactêris, pen. prod. m. g. Col. A token or note made with the pin: a setter: a sigure: a stile or Forme of writing or speaking.Character alicuius. Varro. Ones fashion or maner of speaking.Charactismos.A noting or marking.Charadra.A chinke or cleft of the earth, that a violent streame running downe a hill, or sometime the earthquake, maketh.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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).