impessoal

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Latin persōna

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin persōnālis

Latin impersōnālisslbor.

Portuguese impessoal

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin impersōnālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pe.soˈaw/ [ĩ.pe.soˈaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pɨˈswal/ [ĩ.pɨˈswaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pɨˈswal/ [ĩ.pɨˈswaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pɨˈswa.li/

Adjective

impessoal m or f (plural impessoais)

1. impersonal
2. (grammar, of a verb) impersonal

Antonyms

• pessoal

Further reading

• “impessoal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026