persona
English
/pɝˈsoʊnə/, /pɜː(ɹ)ˈsəʊnə/
noun
Definitions
- A social role.
- A character played by an actor.
- (psychology) The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
- (marketing) An imaginary person representing a particular type of client or customer, considered when designing products and services that will appeal to them.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin persōna (character, mask used by actor, person, role, part, mask) derived from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (face, mask, more generally, countenance, mask used in ancient theatre to denote a character or, a social role, person, character, appearance) derived from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (mask).
Origin
Etruscan
𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖
Gloss
mask
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🎭️ 😷
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- diprosopus English
- prosopagnosia English
- prosopalgia English
- prosopometamorphopsia English
- prosoponology English
- prosopopesis English
- persoona Finnish
- *pessona Latin
- persona Latin
- personalis Latin
- persōna Latin
- persōnālitās Latin
- prosōpographia Latin
- persona Italian
- persona Spanish, Castilian
- προσωπεῖον Ancient Greek
- πρός Ancient Greek
- πρόσωπον Ancient Greek
- ἱερακοπρόσωπος Ancient Greek
- ἱπποπρόσωπος Ancient Greek
- ὤψ Ancient Greek
- *prétih₃kʷo- Proto-Indo-European
- persona Polish
- persone Old French
- persóna Icelandic
- πρόσωπο Greek (modern)
- person Welsh
- persone Middle Dutch
- persona Latvian
- persan Old Irish
- persōn Middle High German
- פרצוף Hebrew (modern)
- persona Asturian
- persona Old Occitan
- parsone xno
- persónn-a Ligurian
- פרצופא Aramaic
- ܦܪܨܘܦܐ Classical Syriac
- persona Ladin
- *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 Etruscan
- 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 Etruscan