persono

See also: personó

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin persōna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /perˈsono/

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• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: per‧so‧no

Noun

persono (accusative singular personon, plural personoj, accusative plural personojn)

1. individual, persona, person

   Synonyms: homo, ulo

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:

     Post nelonge Polemarĥo atingis nin. Akompanis lin Adejmanto, […] kaj diversaj aliaj personoj kiuj revenis de la procesio.

     Polemarchus reached us not long after. Accompanying him were Adeimantus, […] and several other people who returned from the procession.

     (literally, “After not long Polemarchus reached us. Accompanied him Adeimantus, […] and several other people who returned from the procession.”)

2. character (in a book or a film)
3. (grammar) person

Derived terms

• ĉefpersono (“chief person, main character”)

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /perˈsono/

Noun

persono (plural personi)

1. person

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.

Proto-Italic *peri-

Latin per-

Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂éyeti

Proto-Italic *swonaō

Latin sonō

Latin personō

From per- (“through”) + sonō (“make a noise, sound, resound”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛr.sɔ.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛr.so.no]

Verb

personō (present infinitive personāre, perfect active personuī, supine personātum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive) to sound through and through, resound, ring
   • 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos:

     Personant horrendum in modum academiae ac gymnasia novis opinionum monstris, quibus non occulte amplius et cuniculis petitur catholica fides […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (intransitive) to make a sound on a musical instrument, play, sound

   Synonym: canō

3. (transitive) to fill with sound, make resound
4. (transitive, rare) to cry out, call aloud

   Synonyms: conclāmō, exclāmō, acclāmō, succlāmō, clāmō, vōcificō, vōciferor, clāmitō, tonō, inclāmō

Conjugation

• Note that personāvit is an alternative form for the third-person singular perfect active indicative personuit.

   Conjugation of personō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	personō		personās		personat		personāmus		personātis		personant
	imperfect	personābam		personābās		personābat		personābāmus		personābātis		personābant
	future	personābō		personābis		personābit		personābimus		personābitis		personābunt
	perfect	personuī		personuistī		personuit		personuimus		personuistis		personuērunt, personuēre
	pluperfect	personueram		personuerās		personuerat		personuerāmus		personuerātis		personuerant
	future perfect	personuerō		personueris		personuerit		personuerimus		personueritis		personuerint
passive	present	personor		personāris, personāre		personātur		personāmur		personāminī		personantur
	imperfect	personābar		personābāris, personābāre		personābātur		personābāmur		personābāminī		personābantur
	future	personābor		personāberis, personābere		personābitur		personābimur		personābiminī		personābuntur
	perfect	personātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	personātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	personātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	personem		personēs		personet		personēmus		personētis		personent
	imperfect	personārem		personārēs		personāret		personārēmus		personārētis		personārent
	perfect	personuerim		personuerīs		personuerit		personuerīmus		personuerītis		personuerint
	pluperfect	personuissem		personuissēs		personuisset		personuissēmus		personuissētis		personuissent
passive	present	personer		personēris, personēre		personētur		personēmur		personēminī		personentur
	imperfect	personārer		personārēris, personārēre		personārētur		personārēmur		personārēminī		personārentur
	perfect	personātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	personātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		personā		—		—		personāte		—
	future	—		personātō		personātō		—		personātōte		personantō
passive	present	—		personāre		—		—		personāminī		—
	future	—		personātor		personātor		—		—		personantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		personāre			personārī			personāns			—
future		personātūrum esse			personātum īrī			personātūrus			personandus
perfect		personuisse			personātum esse			—			personātus
future perfect		—			personātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		personātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		personandī		personandō		personandum		personandō		personātum		personātū

Derived terms

• personātiō
• personātus

Related terms

• assonō
• circumsonō
• cōnsonō
• dissonō
• exsonō
• īnsonō
• intersonō
• obsonō
• praesonō
• resonō
• sonābilis
• sonāns
• sonāx
• sonipēs
• sonitō
• sonitus
• sonō
• sonor
• sonōritās
• sonōrus
• sonus
• subsonō

Descendants

• → English: personate
• Spanish: personarse

References

• “persono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “persono”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “persono”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

persono

1. only used in me persono, first-person singular present indicative of personarse