Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) person
  2. (feminine) grammatical person

Frequency

A1
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese persõa, pessõa, from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (*φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon).

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