English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin identitas, ultimately from Classical Latin idem meaning "the same".
Noun
en-noun|identities
- The sameness some individuals share to make up the same kind or universal.
- The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest or the same kind.
- A name or persona by which one is known.
#: This criminal has taken on several identities
- Knowledge of who one is.
#: I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
#: This nation has a strong identity.
- cattag2|Algebra|Computing Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
- algebra An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
Translations
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Albanian: identitet
Chinese: 身份 (sh�nfèn), 个� (gèxìng), �� (tèxìng)
Croatian: identitet m
Danish: en identitet, identiteter p
Dutch: identiteit f
Estonian: identiteet
Finnish: henkilöllisyys (1), identiteetti (2), yhtäläisyys (4)
French: t+|fr|identité|f
German: Identität f (1,2,3,4)
Greek: t+|el|�α����η�α|f|sc=Grek (1,2,3,4)
Hebrew: ���ת (zehut) f
Hungarian: identitás (3), egységelem (4)
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Italian: t+|it|identità |f
Japanese: ��� (d�itsusei)
Korean: ë��ì�¼ì�± (dongilseong) (1), ì� ì�� (sinweon)
Latin: identitas f, identitatis (genitive)
Norwegian: identitet
Persian: FAchar|برابر� (barâbari), FAchar|��ا�� (hamâni), FAchar|ش�اسا�� (šenâsâyi)
Polish: tożsamo�� f (1,2); identyczno�� (3,4)
Portuguese: identidade f
Romanian: t|ro|identitate|f
Russian: �ожде��венно��� (toždéstvennost�) f
Slovak: identita f
Spanish: t+|es|identidad|f
Swedish: identitet c
Related terms
identic
identical
identification
identify
identity theft
See also
additive identity
multiplicative identity
left identity
right identity
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