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person

noun
/ˈpɜː.sən/UK/ˈpɜɹ.sən/US/ˈpɑ.sən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin persōna Anglo-Norman persouneder. Middle English persoun English person From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.

  1. derived from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 — “mask”
  2. derived from persōna — “mask used by actor; role, part, character”
  3. derived from parsone
  4. inherited from persoun

Definitions

  1. An individual who has been granted personhood

    An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

    • Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.

  2. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.

    • […]when the young Ladies laughed at her for it, ſhe replied that it was not his perſon that ſhe did embrace and reverence, but the divine beauty of his Soule.
    • The Captain, inclining his military person, sat sideways to be closer and kinder[…].
    • At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.

  3. Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.

    • At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. The human genitalia

      The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.

    2. A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those…

      A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person.

    3. A shoot or bud of a plant

      A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

      • True corms, composed of united personae […] usually arise by gemmation, […] yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.

    4. A soulmate

      A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.

    5. To represent as a person

      To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

      • Or let us perſon him like ſome wretched itinerary Judge, […]

    6. To man, to supply with staff or crew.

      • And I sat at the counter and watched the cooker cat personning the griddle with one hand and the grill with the other.

    7. A surname.

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Derived

about one's person, adperson, ambulanceperson, anchorperson, antiperson, Antperson, ape-person, artificial person, assemblyperson, as the next person, barperson, baseperson, battered person syndrome, bellperson, birthing person, blind person, boat person, boatperson, bondsperson, bushperson, catperson, cattleperson, caveperson, certain person, Chinaperson, churchperson, cis person, clansperson, clergyperson, committeeperson, computer person, conperson, contact person, corpsperson, councilperson, counterperson, countryperson, cowperson, craftsperson, crewperson · +169 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for person. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA