English

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. (computing) A type of skin used in Mozilla software.

Translations

See also

• alter ego
• moniker

Anagrams

• pronase

Asturian

Noun

persona f ‎(plural persones)

1. person

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin persōna ‎(“person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəɾˈsonə/
• Rhymes: -ona

Noun

persona f ‎(plural persones)

1. person

Esperanto

Adjective

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

1. personal

Finnish

Adjective

persona

1. Essive singular form of perso.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin persona.

Pronunciation

Noun

persona f ‎(plural persone)

1. person, pl people, persons
2. someone, somebody, anybody
3. body, figure
4. (law) person, body
5. (psychology) persona

Synonyms

• (person (plural)): gente
• (someone): qualcuno, nessuno
• (body): corpo, personale, aspetto

Related terms

• di persona
• impersonare
• in persona
• in prima persona
• personaggio
• personale
• personalità
• personificare

Anagrams

• sperano, sperona

Ladin

Noun

persona f ‎(plural persones)

1. person

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /perˈsoː.na/

Noun

persōna f ‎(genitive persōnae); first declension

1. mask
2. character
3. person, personality
4. (grammar) person

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• persōnālis

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “persona”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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

personā

1. second-person singular active imperative of personō

Latvian

Noun

persona f (4th declension)

1. person
2. individual
3. character

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin persona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɾˈsona/

Noun

persona f ‎(plural personas)

1. person