See also: personó

Esperanto

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin persōna.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [perˈsono]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ono
  • Hyphenation: per‧so‧no

Noun

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

  1. individual, persona, person
    Synonyms: homo, ulo
  2. character (in a book or a film)
  3. (grammar) person

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Noun

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persono (plural personi)

  1. person

Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to sound through and through, resound, ring
  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

Conjugation

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: personate
  • Spanish: personarse

References

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  • 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.

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Verb

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persono

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