person

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Usage notes 1.4.2 Derived terms 1.4.3 Translations 2 Breton 2.1 Noun 3 Danish 3.1 Noun 4 Norwegian 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Inflection 5 Swedish 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun

[edit] English

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[edit] Alternative spellings

• perſon (archaic)

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English persone < Old French persone (human being, French personne) < Latin persona (a dramatic mask, hence role, part, character), possibly < Etruscan phersu ("mask").

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• enPR: pûrʹsən, IPA: /ˈpɜː(r)sən/, SAMPA: /"p3:(r)s@n/
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  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)sən

• Hyphenation: per‧son

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person (plural persons, people (by suppletion) See Usage notes.)

1. Human being; individual.
2. Specific human being.

   Where is the person?

3. The physical body of a specified individual.

   Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang. — New York Times, 2004

4. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.

   By common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.

5. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.

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• The plural of the oldest senses of "person" ("human being") is almost always "people". The plural of later senses is always "persons".

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• in person

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Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	person	berson	ferson	unchanged	unchanged
plural	personed	bersoned	fersoned	unchanged	unchanged

person m. (plural personed)

1. vicar

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person c.

1. person

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[edit] Norwegian

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person

1. person

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Inflection for person	Singular		Plural
Common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	person	personen	personer	personerna
Genitive	persons	personens	personers	personernas

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[edit] Noun

person

1. human being
2. individual