persono

Ultimately from Latin persōna.

• IPA^(key): /perˈsono/

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• Rhymes: -ono
• Hyphenation: per‧so‧no

persono (accusative singular personon, plural personoj, accusative plural personojn)

1. individual, persona, person

   Synonyms: homo, ulo

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:

     Post nelonge Polemarĥo atingis nin. Akompanis lin Adejmanto, […] kaj diversaj aliaj personoj kiuj revenis de la procesio.

     Polemarchus reached us not long after. Accompanying him were Adeimantus, […] and several other people who returned from the procession.

     (literally, “After not long Polemarchus reached us. Accompanied him Adeimantus, […] and several other people who returned from the procession.”)

2. character (in a book or a film)
3. (grammar) person

• ĉefpersono (“chief person, main character”)

• IPA^(key): /perˈsono/

persono (plural personi)

1. person

From per- (“through”) +‎ sonō (“make a noise, sound, resound”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛr.sɔ.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛr.so.no]

personō (present infinitive personāre, perfect active personuī, supine personātum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive) to sound through and through, resound, ring
   • 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos:

     Personant horrendum in modum academiae ac gymnasia novis opinionum monstris, quibus non occulte amplius et cuniculis petitur catholica fides […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (intransitive) to make a sound on a musical instrument, play, sound

   Synonym: canō

3. (transitive) to fill with sound, make resound
4. (transitive, rare) to cry out, call aloud

   Synonyms: conclāmō, exclāmō, acclāmō, succlāmō, clāmō, vōcificō, vōciferor, clāmitō, tonō, inclāmō

• Note that personāvit is an alternative form for the third-person singular perfect active indicative personuit.

• → English: personate
• Spanish: personarse

• “persono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “persono”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “persono”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

persono

1. only used in me persono, first-person singular present indicative of personarse