persona

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See also: personá, persóna, and personā

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōna (“mask; character”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from personō (“to sound through”); or from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face; appearance; mask used in ancient theatre to denote a character or, more generally, a social role”); or from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu). Doublet of person and parson.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: per‧so‧na

Noun

persona (plural personas or personae or personæ)

  1. A social role.
  2. A character played by an actor.
  3. (psychology) The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
  4. (marketing, user experience) An imaginary person representing a particular type of client or customer, considered when designing products and services that will appeal to them.

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Further reading

Anagrams

Asturian

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Etymology

From Latin persōna (“person”).

Noun

persona f (plural persones)

  1. person

Catalan

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin persōna (“person”).

Pronunciation

Noun

persona f (plural persones)

  1. person

Derived terms

Further reading

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): [perˈsona]
  • Rhymes: -ona
  • Hyphenation: per‧so‧na

Adjective

persona (accusative singular personan, plural personaj, accusative plural personajn)

  1. personal

Finnish

Adjective

persona

  1. (deprecated template usage) essive singular of perso

Italian

Etymology

From Latin persōna (“person”), of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: per‧so‧na
  • Audio:(file)
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Noun

persona f (plural persone)

  1. person, pl people, persons
  2. someone, somebody, anybody
    Synonyms: qualcuno, nessuno
  3. body, figure
  4. (law) person, body
    Synonyms: corpo, personale, aspetto
  5. (psychology) persona

Synonyms

Anagrams

Ladin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin persōna (“person”).

Noun

persona f (plural persones)

  1. person

Latin

Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu) (with some Latin suffix), itself perhaps from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “mask, character”), and possibly, as Roman writers often suggested, from personō (“to sound through”).

Pronunciation

Noun

persōna f (genitive persōnae); first declension

  1. mask
  2. character
  3. (grammar) person
  4. (Medieval Latin) a person, personality
  5. (Medieval Latin) a lord
  6. (Medieval Latin) dignity
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative persōna persōnae
Genitive persōnae persōnārum
Dative persōnae persōnīs
Accusative persōnam persōnās
Ablative persōnā persōnīs
Vocative persōna persōnae
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  • “persona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “persona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • persona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • persona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “persona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “persona”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber

Etymology 2

Inflection of the verb personō.

Verb

(deprecated template usage) personā

  1. second-person singular active imperative of personō

Latvian

Etymology

From Latin persōna (“person”).

Noun

persona f (4th declension)

  1. person
  2. individual
  3. character

Declension

Declension of persona (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) persona personas
accusative (akuzatīvs) personu personas
genitive (ģenitīvs) personas personu
dative (datīvs) personai personām
instrumental (instrumentālis) personu personām
locative (lokatīvs) personā personās
vocative (vokatīvs) persona personas

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan persona, from Latin persona.

Noun

persona f (plural personas)

  1. person

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōna (“person”)[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peɾˈsona/ [peɾˈso.na]
  • Rhymes: -ona
  • Hyphenation: per‧so‧na

Noun

persona f (plural personas)

  1. person (an individual; usually a human being)
    Synonym: individuo

Derived terms

Further reading

References

  1. ^ https://www.scribd.com/document/220768067/Corominas-Diccionario-Etimologico
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