persona muta

noun

A nonspeaking role, a silent actor.

OriginLatin mūta persōna →
First used early 18th c.
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Meanings

noun
  1. entertainmentA nonspeaking role, a silent actor.First known use early 18th c.

    She will be a persona muta, a non-speaking actor. She will thus have in this episode the function that her father had during the preceding stasimon, except that she will act. And since she will act, she, that is, the movement of her body in the stage space, […]

    1996, Lowell Edmunds, Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 69

Origin

  1. Latinmūta persōna“silent character”
  2. Englishpersona muta

From Latin mūta persōna (“silent character”).

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persona muta. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/persona%20muta

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Chicago

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