• CHARACTERISTIC

1. nota: signum (mark): proprietas (peculiarity). Often by neuter adjective: it is characteristic of the Romans to, etc., Romanum est, etc.

2. adj. singularis: proprius. You have some characteristic traits, which are found in no other person, quaedam in te singularia sunt, quae in nullum alium hominem dici neque convenire possunt (Cic.). That is characteristic of him, *in hac re, ut in speculo, cernitur ejus bonitas (or whatever the kind of characteristic may be). The characteristic features of anybody’s character, lineamenta ingenii alicujus.