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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• characteristic (adj.):
      1. 1. proprĭus (with gen.): this vice is not c. of old age, but is common to weakness generally, id non p. senectutis est vitium, sed commune valetudinis, Cic.: to create and to produce is chiefly c. of art, artis maxime p. est creare et gignere, Cic.
      2. 2. mōrātus: a c. poem (i. e. abounding in character), m. poema, Cic.: Hor. Phr.: some traits in you are c., others common to you and many persons, sunt quaedam in te singularia, quaedam tibi cum multis communia, Cic.: with his c., that is to say, dubious, fidelity, sua, id est dubia, fide, Vell.
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• characteristic (subs.):
      1. 1. proprĭum (prop. an adj.: v. supr.): this they consider the c. of bravery, hoc p. virtutis existimant, Caes.: Cic.
      2. 2. hăbĭtus, ūs: the natural c.s of soils, patrii h. locorum, Virg.: more usu. collectively: v. character (IV.).
      3. 3. proprĭĕtas: everything has its peculiar c.s, singularium rerum singulae p. sunt Cic.
      4. 4. Expr. by gen. of the subs. denoting that whose c. is spoken of; as, it is the c. of a wise judge, sapientis judicis est, Cic. (or by a derivative adj.; as, it is the c. of human beings, humanum est).
      5. 5. chăractēr, ēris: v. style.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• 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.