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A character (from the Greek "engraved or stamped mark" on coins or seals, "branding mark, symbol"〔(χαρακτήρ ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕) is a sign or symbol. ==History== Greek is a nomen agentis of the verb (''charassō'') with a meaning "to sharpen, to whet", and also "to make cake",〔(χαράσσω ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 from a PIE root ' "cut" also continued in Irish ''gearr'' and English ''gash'', which is perhaps an early loan ultimately from the same Greek root.〔(gash ), on Oxford Dictionaries〕 A is thus an "engraver", originally in the sense of a craftsman, but then also used for a tool used for engraving, and for a stamp for minting coins. From the stamp, the meaning was extended to the stamp impression, Plato using the noun in the sense of "engraved mark". In Plutarch, the word could refer to a figure or letter, Lucian uses it of hieroglyphs as opposed to Greek ''grammata'' (''Herm''. 44) Metaphorically, it could refer to a distinctive mark, Herodotus (1.57) using it of a particular dialect, or (1.116) of a characteristic mark of an individual. The collective noun "characteristics" appears later, in Dionysius Halicarnassensis. Via Latin ''ラテン語:charactēr'', Old French ''フランス語:caracter'', the word passed into Middle English as ' in the 14th century. Wycliffe (1382) has ''To haue a () in her forhedis'' () for the mark of the beast (translating "imprinted or branded mark"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Character (symbol)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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