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Person — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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A person was a mask and role before the modern individual.
Latin persōna carries mask, role, and character senses; a probable Etruscan phersu connection and proposed Greek route remain visibly uncertain.
*h₃ekʷ-
*h₃ekʷ- → ὤψ → πρόσωπον → phersu → persōna → persone → persone → person
Etymology: Latin persona, mask, role, personPublishes the semantic history.
person dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING
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EDGE 833contextestablished
person → persone
Present-Day English → Middle English · continuation
- SOUND
- Modern person continues Middle English persone with loss of final unstressed e and stabilized spelling.
- MEANING
- Role and individual reference develop into the modern person noun.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Headword etymologyIndependently supplies the medieval and Latin history.
EDGE 835contextestablished
persone → persōna
Anglo-French → Latin · inheritance
- SOUND
- Anglo-French persone continues Latin persōna.
- MEANING
- Mask, role, character, and person senses travel through Romance.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: Old French persone from Latin persōnaIndependently supplies the Romance-to-Latin route.
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persona
English / Latin routelearned continuation of the mask, role, and character word
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Etymology: Latin persōna, mask, role, person · regional070
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