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style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of person" class="word__name--TTbAA">person<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>c. 1200, <span class="foreign notranslate">persoun</span>, "an individual, a human being," from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">persone</span> "human being, anyone, person" (12c., Modern French <span class="foreign notranslate">personne</span>) and directly from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">persona</span> "human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character," originally "a mask, a false face," such as those of wood or clay, covering the whole head, worn by the actors in later Roman theater. OED offers the general 19c. explanation of <span class="foreign notranslate">persona</span> as "related to" Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">personare</span> "to sound through" (i.e. the mask as something spoken through and perhaps amplifying the voice), "but the long <span class="foreign notranslate">o</span> makes a difficulty ...." Klein and Barnhart say it is possibly borrowed from Etruscan <span class="foreign notranslate">phersu</span> "mask." De Vaan has no entry for it.</p> <p>From mid-13c. as "one of the persons of the Trinity," a theological use in Church Latin of the classical word. Meanings "one's physical being, the living body" and "external appearance" are from late 14c. In grammar, "one of the relations which a subject may have to a verb," from 1510s. In legal use, "corporate body or corporation other than the state and having rights and duties before the law," 15c., short for <span class="foreign notranslate">person aggregate</span> (c. 1400), <span class="foreign notranslate">person corporate</span> (mid-15c.).</p> <p>The use of <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>-person</strong></span> to replace <span class="foreign notranslate">-man</span> in compounds for the sake of gender neutrality or to avoid allegations of sexism is recorded by 1971 (in <span class="foreign notranslate">chairperson</span>). <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>In person</strong></span> "by bodily presence" is from 1560s. <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>Person-to-person</strong></span> (adj.) is attested by 1919, originally of telephone calls; the phrase itself was in use by 1880 in reference to the spreading of diseases.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:c.%201200">c. 1200</a></div><div class="chart--2x1ib"><div class="chart"><img src="https://cdn.etymonline.com/chart/etymology-person-12750p_l.jpg?t=1661583892000" alt="Origin and meaning of person"/></div></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to person">Entries linking to <i>person</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of chairperson" href="/word/chairperson#etymonline_v_27930">chairperson<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>gender-neutral alternative to <a href="/word/chairman" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of chairman " class="crossreference notranslate">chairman</a>, <a href="/word/chairwoman" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of chairwoman " class="crossreference notranslate">chairwoman</a>, by 1971, American English, from <a href="/word/chair#etymonline_v_8391" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of chair " class="crossreference notranslate">chair</a> (n.) + <a href="/word/person" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of person " class="crossreference notranslate">person</a>.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of impersonate" href="/word/impersonate#etymonline_v_1565">impersonate<!-- --> <!-- -->(v.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>1620s, "represent in bodily form," from assimilated form of Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">in-</span> "into, in" (from PIE root <a href="/word/*en" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *en " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*en</a> "in") + <span class="foreign notranslate">persona</span> "person" (see <a href="/word/person#etymonline_v_12750" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of person " class="crossreference notranslate">person</a> (n.)). The sense of "assume the person or character of" is recorded by 1715; earlier in that sense was <span class="foreign notranslate">personate</span> (1610s). Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Impersonated</span>; <span class="foreign notranslate">impersonating</span>.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><ul class="related__container--22iKI"><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of interpersonal" href="/word/interpersonal"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">interpersonal</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of parson" href="/word/parson"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">parson</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of persona" href="/word/persona"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">persona</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of personable" href="/word/personable"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">personable</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of personage" href="/word/personage"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">personage</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of personal" href="/word/personal"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">personal</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of personhood" href="/word/personhood"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">personhood</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of personify" href="/word/personify"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">personify</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of salesperson" href="/word/salesperson"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">salesperson</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of tri-personal" href="/word/tri-personal"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">tri-personal</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of unperson" href="/word/unperson"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">unperson</li></a><a class="related__more--1gm0U related__word--3Si0N" href="/word/person/related"><li>See all related words (<!-- -->13<!-- -->) <!-- -->></li></a></ul></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of person">Trends of <i>person</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.</div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="More to Explore">More to Explore</h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of parson" href="/word/parson"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">parson<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 13c., person (late 12c. as a surname), "parish priest" (later often applied to a clergyman in general), from Anglo-French and Old French persone "curate, parson, holder of Church office" (12c.), from Medieval Latin persona "parson" (see person). The reason for the ecclesiast</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of persona" href="/word/persona"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">persona<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1917, "outward or social personality," a Jungian psychology term, from Latin persona "person" (see person). Used earlier (1909) by Ezra Pound in the sense "literary character representing voice of the author." Persona grata is Late Latin, literally "an acceptable person," origina</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of personage" href="/word/personage"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">personage<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">mid-15c., "body of a person" (with regard to appearance), also "notable person, a man or woman of high rank or distinction," from Old French personage "size, stature," also "a dignitary" (13c.), from Medieval Latin personaticum (11c.), from Latin persona (see person). As a longer</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of habeas corpus" href="/word/habeas%20corpus"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">habeas corpus<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">writ requiring a person to be brought before a court, mid-15c., Latin, literally "(you should) have the person," in phrase...Anglo-French documents to require a person to be brought before a court or judge, especially to determine if that person...") + corpus "person," literally "body" (see corporeal)....In reference to more than one person, habeas corpora....</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of floruit" href="/word/floruit"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">floruit<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"period during which a historical person's life work was done," 1843, Latin, literally "he flourished," third person singular...The third person singular present subjunctive of the verb, floreat, sometimes is attached to proper names "to indicate the...hope that the named person, institution, etc., may prosper" [OED]....</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of victim" href="/word/victim"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">victim<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power, or in the performance of a religious rite;" from Latin victima "sacrificial animal; person...Sense of "person who is hurt, tortured, or killed by another" is recorded from 1650s; meaning "person oppressed by some power...or situation, person ruined or greatly injured or made to suffer in the pursuit of an object, or for the gratification of...Weaker sense of "person taken advantage of, one who is cheated or duped" is recorded from 1781....</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of counterpart" href="/word/counterpart"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">counterpart<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">.)) + partie "copy of a person or thing," originally fem. past participle of partir "to divide" (see party (n.))....Sense of "person or thing exactly resembling another" is from 1670s; that of "person or thing serving as the equivalent of...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of candidate" href="/word/candidate"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">candidate<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"person who seeks or is put forward for an office by election or appointment," c. 1600, from Latin candidatus "one aspiring to office," originally "white-robed," past participle of candidare "to make white or bright," from candidus, past participle of candere "to shine" (from PIE</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of intellectual" href="/word/intellectual"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">intellectual<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 14c., "grasped by the understanding" (rather than by the senses), from Old French intellectuel (13c.) and directly from Latin intellectualis "relating to the understanding," from intellectus "discernment, understanding," noun use of past participle of intelligere "to underst</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of Caucasian" href="/word/Caucasian"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">Caucasian<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1807, of or pertaining to the Caucasus Mountains (q.v.), with -ian. Applied to the "white" race 1795 (in Latin) by German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), who in his pioneering treatise on anthropology distinguished mankind into five races: Mongolian, Ethio</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div class="share-tool socialShare--223YS"><h3 title="Share person to social networks" class="socialShare__title--34iP2">Share <i>person</i></h3><div class="cite--1qJ-_ share-cite">‘<!-- -->cite<!-- -->’</div><a title="Share on Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fperson" data-social-target="Facebook" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__facebook--2fm3U fa-facebook"></a><a title="Share on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fperson&text=person%20%7C%20Etymology%20of%20person%20by%20etymonline" data-social-target="Twitter" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__twitter--1iFxf fa-twitter"></a><a title="Share on Reddit" href="https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fperson&title=person%20%7C%20Etymology%20of%20person%20by%20etymonline" data-social-target="Reddit" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__reddit--30bBu fa-reddit"></a><a title="Share on Email" href="mailto:?subject=person%20%7C%20Etymology%20of%20person%20by%20etymonline&body=%22an%20individual%2C%20a%20human%20being%2C%22%20from%20Old%20French%20persone%20%22human%20being%2C%20anyone%2C%20person%22%E2%80%A6%20See%20origin%20and%20meaning%20of%20person.%0Afrom%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fperson%20Find%20out%20more%20at%20etymonline.com" data-social-target="Email" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__email--3hVBm fa-email"></a><div class="cite__content--3ghsO cite-content"><div class="cite__content_title--3ABWh">Page URL:</div><textarea class="cite__content_textarea--3zgJO cite-textarea" readonly="">https://www.etymonline.com/word/person</textarea><div class="cite__content_title--3ABWh">HTML Link:</div><textarea class="cite__content_textarea--3zgJO cite-textarea" readonly=""><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/person">Etymology of person by etymonline</a></textarea><div class="cite__content_title--3ABWh">APA style:</div><textarea class="cite__content_textarea--3zgJO cite-textarea" readonly="">Harper, D. 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class="alphabetical__word--3UeP2">persona</p></a><a title="Origin and meaning of personable" target="" rel="nofollow" href="/word/personable"><p class="alphabetical__word--3UeP2">personable</p></a><a title="Origin and meaning of personage" target="" rel="nofollow" href="/word/personage"><p class="alphabetical__word--3UeP2">personage</p></a><a title="Origin and meaning of personal" target="" rel="nofollow" href="/word/personal"><p class="alphabetical__word--3UeP2">personal</p></a><a title="Origin and meaning of personality" target="" rel="nofollow" href="/word/personality"><p class="alphabetical__word--3UeP2">personality</p></a></div></div></div></div><div class="alphabet--3sMXd"><ul class="alphabet__inner--2NEtM"><li class="alphabet__node--huwT8" title="Prefix, suffix and words starting with the letter A"><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?q=a">A</a></li><li class="alphabet__node--huwT8" title="Prefix, suffix and words starting with the letter B"><a rel="nofollow" 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