Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) person (an individual being, especially a human)
  2. (feminine, formal) person (someone’s physical body)
  3. (feminine) person (either the speaker, those spoken to or the subject of the discussion)
  4. (feminine) person (any of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity)
  5. (feminine) person (person or organisation with standing before the courts)

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/peˈso.ɐ/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese pessõa, from Vulgar Latin *pessona, from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon). Displaced borrowed persona (retained in dialects of Spain).

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