English

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɜː(r)sən/, /"p3:(r)s@n/

Etymology

Latin persona – human being, dramatic mask; Etruscan phersu – mask

Noun

person (people, persons)

1. Human being; individual
2. Specific human. Where is the person?
3. Body

   I have no money on my person

4. Anything having legal equivalence to a human being.

   According to the Supreme Court of the United States, a corporation is legally entitled to the rights of a person.

Quotations

• (2): 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

Translations

• Arabic: شَخص (ʃaxsˁ) (1)
• Basque: pertsona (1)
• Belarusian: пэрсона , асоба
• Breton: den m (1)
• Brithenig: person f
• Bulgarian: човек m (1)
• Catalan: persona f (1)
• Chinese: 人 (1)
• Czech: osoba f
• Danish: person m (1)
• Dutch: persoon m, f (1)
• Esperanto: homo, persono , person|persono]] (1)
• Estonian: isik (1)
• Finnish: ihminen , henkilö (1)
• French: personne f (1)
• German: Person f (1)
• Greek:άτομο (1)
• Guarani: ava (1)
• Hungarian: személy

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• Indonesian: orang (1)]
• Interlingua: persona (1)
• Italian: persona f (1)
• Japanese: 人 (ひと, hito) (1)
• Latin: homo m (1)
• Korean: 사람 (saram) (1)
• Manchu: (niyalma ) (1)
• Persian: نَفَر (næfær), شَخص (šæxs) (1)
• Mycenaean : 𐀀𐀵𐀫𐀦 (a-to-ro-quo = *antrōquos) (1)
• Portuguese: pessoa f (1)
• Romanian: persoană f (1)
• Romanica: persona (1)
• Russian: персона f, лицо n, человек m (1)
• Slovak: osoba f (1)
• Spanish: persona f, hombre (del genero masculino o femenino), ser humano, humano (1)
• Swedish: person (1,2), människa , man m, kvinna f (1)
• Tupinambá: abá (1)

Swedish

Noun

person

1. Human being
2. Individual

Conjugations

Proper noun

Person

1. Spelling variant of the surname Persson