Wiktionary

pessoa

See also: Pessoa, pessôa, and pessõa

PortugueseEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Old Portuguese pessõa, from Vulgar Latin *pessona, from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon). Displaced borrowed persona (retained in dialects of Spain).

PronunciationEdit

 

  • (Dialectal Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈsow.ɐ/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈso.a/
    • (without vowel harmony) IPA(key): /pɛˈso.a/
  • (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /piˈso.ɐ/
  • Hyphenation: pes‧so‧a

NounEdit

pessoa f (plural pessoas)

  2. person (an individual being, especially a human)
    Estava vendo umas pessoas caminhar. ― I was watching some people walk.
    Synonyms: indivíduo, sujeito
  4. (formal) person (someone’s physical body)
    O sujeito portava uma arma em sua pessoa. ― The person was carrying a weapon in his person.
    Synonym: corpo
  6. (grammar) person (either the speaker, those spoken to or the subject of the discussion)
    Ele é um pronome da terceira pessoa. ― He is a third-person pronoun.
  8. (Christian theology) person (any of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity)
    Synonyms: pessoa divina, hipóstase

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pessoa.

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