personnel

English

Etymology

From French personnel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pɝ.səˈnɛl/, /pɝsˈnɛl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɜː.səˈnɛl/, /pɜːsˈnɛl/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɵː.sɘˈnɛl/, /pɵːsˈnɛl/, /-el/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

personnel (uncountable)

1. Employees; office staff.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with personal.

Translations

employees, office staff

• Dutch: personeel (nl), medewerkers (nl)
• Finnish: henkilökunta (fi), henkilöstö (fi)
• French: personnel (fr) m
• Georgian: პერსონალი (ṗersonali), კადრები (ḳadrebi), შტატი (ka) (šṭaṭi)
• German: Personal (de) n
• Hebrew: סגל‎ (he) m (segel)
• Hungarian: személyzet (hu)
• Ido: personaro (io)
• Indonesian: personel (id), personil (id)
• Italian: personale (it) m

• Malagasy: olona (mg)
• Malay: kakitangan
• Norwegian: personell
• Polish: personel (pl) m, kadra (pl) f
• Portuguese: pessoal (pt) m
• Romanian: personal (ro)
• Russian: ли́чный соста́в (ru) m (líčnyj sostáv), персона́л (ru) m (personál)
• Spanish: personal (es) m
• Turkish: personel (tr) pl, çalışanlar pl, kadro (tr)
• Volapük: (collective) pösodef (vo)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin personalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɔ.nɛl/

• audio

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Adjective

personnel (feminine singular personnelle, masculine plural personnels, feminine plural personnelles)

1. personal

Synonyms

• (informal) perso

Noun

personnel m (plural personnels)

1. staff, members of staff, personnel

Related terms

• personnaliser
• personne
• personnellement

Further reading

• “personnel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).