Etymology

impersonatress

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Today it means: A female impersonator. Full definition →

English impersonator ← Middle English persoun ← Anglo-Norman persoune
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishim-
  7. Latinpersōna
  8. Anglo-Normanpersoune
  9. Middle Englishpersoun
  10. Englishperson
  11. Englishimpersonate
  12. Englishimpersonator
  13. English todayimpersonatress

From impersonator + -ess.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.