persona

Borrowed from Latin persōna (“mask; character”), of uncertain origin. Suggested to be from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask; masked individual; actor”), which could be a loan from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face; appearance; mask used in ancient theatre to denote a character or, more generally, a social role”). Doublet of person and parson.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɝˈsoʊnə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɜːˈsəʊnə/, /pəˈsəʊnə/

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• Hyphenation: per‧so‧na
• Rhymes: -əʊnə

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.

   He keeps his online persona completely separate from his real-world one.

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.
   • 2014, Ira Kaufman, Chris Horton, Digital Marketing, page 128:

     To do so, your organization should create nuanced buyer personas for all relevant market segments or buyer groups that demonstrate affinity to your brand. These buyer personas should include standard demographic information […]

• fursona
• worksona
• objectsona

• → Japanese: ペルソナ (perusona)

• alter ego
• moniker

• persona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Persona (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alter ego on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Pearson, Peronas, S'porean, pronase

From Latin persōna (“person”).

persona f (plural persones)

1. person

Borrowed from Latin persona.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pərˈso.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾˈso.na]

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• Rhymes: -ona

persona f (plural persones)

1. person

• personificar

• personal
• personatge

• “persona”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “persona”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “persona” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “persona” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English persona, ultimately from Latin persōna. Doublet with persoon (“person”).

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persona f (plural persona's)

1. (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; a persona

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• IPA^(key): /perˈsona/
• Rhymes: -ona
• Hyphenation: per‧so‧na

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

1. personal

persona

1. essive singular of perso

Learned borrowing from Latin persōna. Doublet of person.

• IPA^(key): [pərˈsona]
• Rhymes: -na, -a
• Hyphenation: pêr‧so‧na

pêrsona

1. person,
   1. an individual; usually a human being
   2. (grammar) a linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking
2. persona,
   1. a social role
   2. the mask or appearance one presents to the world

• “persona” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

persona (plural personas)

1. person

• gente
• populo

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

• IPA^(key): /perˈso.na/

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• Rhymes: -ona
• Hyphenation: per‧só‧na

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

• (person (plural)): gente

• serpano, spanerò, sperano, sperona

• porsona (Fascian)

From Latin persōna (“person”).

persona f (plural persones)

1. person

• presona

Inherited from Old Spanish persona, from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (*φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon).

persona f (Hebrew spelling פירסונה)^[1]

1. person (individual)
   • 1979, Kamelia Shahar, “La verdadera felisidad”, in Aki Yerushalayim, number 1, page 6:

     Sus madre viendolos tristes i abatidos les disho: Mis ijos, basta de kreyer solo en la rikeza. La persona verderamente oroza es la ke se kontenta kon lo ke le dio el Dió.

     Their mother, seeing them sad and humbled, said to them: My children, stop believing only in wealth. The person who is truly happy is the one who is content with what God has given them.

Ultimately from Latin persona. Cognates include Latvian persona.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲɛ̀rsɔna]
• Hyphenation: per‧so‧na

persona f

1. person

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 27

Unknown. Two links have been suggested:

• to Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu) (human figure appearing with a mask), which some have referred to Perseus, some to Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “mask, character”);
• to personō (“to sound through”), often by Roman writers, but notice short and long o.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛrˈsoː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [perˈsɔː.na]

persōna f (genitive persōnae); first declension

1. mask
2. character, personage, role
3. personality, character, individuality
4. (grammar) person
5. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) person
   • 6th c. CE, Boethius, Contra Eutychen et Nestorium 4:

     Sed esse Chrīstum manifestē ac vērāciter confitēmur; ūnum igitur esse dīcimus Chrīstum. Quod sī ita est, ūnam quoque Chrīstī sine dubitātiōne persōnam esse necesse est. Nam sī duae persōnae essent, ūnus esse nōn posset; duōs vērō esse dīcere Chrīstōs nihil est aliud nisi praecipitātae mentis īnsānia.

     But we clearly and truly confess profess that Christ exists, and so we say He is one. This being the case, it must follow without doubt that the person of Christ is also one. If there were two persons, then there could not be one, so to say that there are two Christs is nothing but the insanity of distraught mind.

6. (Medieval Latin) a lord
7. (Medieval Latin) dignity

First-declension noun.

• persolla
• persōnālis

• “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

Inflection of the verb personō.

personā

1. second-person singular active imperative of personō

From Latin persōna (“person”).

persona f (4th declension)

1. person
2. individual
3. character

• personna (Western orthographies)
• persuna (Eastern phonetic orthographies)

From Latin persōna.

• IPA^(key): /perˈsoːna/
  • IPA^(key): [pe̞rˈsuːnɑ]
  • IPA^(key): [pe̞rˈhuːnɑ] (Prealpine)
  • IPA^(key): [pärˈtsoːnä] (Ticinese)
  • IPA^(key): [pe̞rˈsu(ː)ŋä] (Western varieties)

persona f (plural persone)

1. person

Inherited from Old Occitan persona, from Latin persōna.

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persona f (plural personas)

1. person

persona

1. alternative form of pessõa

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “persona”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (*φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon).

persona

1. person (individual)

• Occitan: persona

• “persona”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 2013–2025

• presona

Inherited from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (*φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon).

persona f (plural personas)

1. person (individual)

• Ladino: persona, פירסונה
• Spanish: persona

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “persona”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 392

Learned borrowing from Latin persōna. Doublet of personat.

• IPA^(key): /pɛrˈsɔ.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Syllabification: per‧so‧na

persona f

1. (literary) person (individual substance of a rational nature; usually a human being)

   Synonym: osoba

2. (ironic) personage (famous or important person)

• persona in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• persona in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /peɾˈsona/ [peɾˈso.na]

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• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: per‧so‧na

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

persona f (plural personas)

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

   Synonym: individuo

2. a socially distinguished person, a personality
3. a wise or otherwise excellent person
4. a character (an individual with a specific role in a literary work)

• This noun does not change; even when addressing males.

persona

1. only used in se persona, third-person singular present indicative of personarse
2. only used in te ... persona, syntactic variant of persónate, second-person singular imperative of personarse

• “persona”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024