Etymology

personate

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Today it means: To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate. Full definition →

Latin persōnātus
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personate · verb, adjective1

  1. Latin · derived frompersōnātus
  2. English todaypersonate

From Latin persōnātus.

personate · verb2

  1. Latin · derived frompersonō“cry out”
  2. English todaypersonate

From Latin personō (“cry out”).

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