"personality" in seven languages
Meaningpersonality
Spanish
personalidad
/peɾsonaliˈdad/
fem.learned
French
personnalité
/pɛʁsɔnalite/
fem.learned
Italian
personalità
/personaliˈta/
fem.learned
Portuguese
personalidade
/pehsonaliˈdadʒi/
fem.learned
Romanian
personalitate
/personaliˈtate/
fem.learned
Catalan
personalitat
/pəɾsunəliˈtat/
fem.learned
English
personality
/pɝsəˈnæləti/
from Latin/French · Old French personalité / Medieval Latin
English → ItalianpersonalitypersonalitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PERSŌNĀLITĀTEM (Medieval Latin)‘personhood’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A textbook case of -TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà, English -ty. Latin PERSŌNA was first an actor's mask.
English relatives: person, personal, persona
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esTiene mucha personalidad.
- frElle a une forte personnalité.
- itHa una personalità forte.
- ptEla tem uma personalidade forte.
- roAre o personalitate puternică.
- caTé molta personalitat.
- enShe has a strong personality.
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