• n. 人；身體；容貌，外表；人稱
• n. (Person)人名；(法、俄、德)佩爾松；(瑞典)佩爾松；(英)珀森

來自拉丁語persona,面具，角色，演員，性格，假象，人，可能來自personare,發(fā)聲，透過，來自per-,通過，-son,聲音，詞源同sound,sonorous.其原義可能是透過面具發(fā)出聲音或擴大聲音，該詞原為古羅馬時期戲劇表演時演員所戴的面具，后引申多種詞義。

person

person: [13] Latin persōna originally denoted a ‘mask, particularly one worn by an actor’ (it may have been borrowed from Etruscan phersu ‘mask’). It gradually evolved through ‘character played by an actor’ (a meaning preserved in English persona [20], a term introduced by Jungian psychology) to ‘individual human being’. It entered English via Old French persone, and by the normal processes of phonetic development has become parson.

But this in the Middle English period was hived off (for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained) to ‘priest’, and the original Latinate spelling person was restored for ‘human being’. Other derivatives to have reached English include impersonate [17], personage [15], personal [14], personality [14], and, via French, personnel [19].
=> impersonate, parson, personnel

person (n.)

early 13c., from Old French persone "human being, anyone, person" (12c., Modern French personne) and directly from Latin persona "human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character," originally "mask, false face," such as those of wood or clay worn by the actors in later Roman theater. OED offers the general 19c. explanation of persona as "related to" Latin personare "to sound through" (i.e. the mask as something spoken through and perhaps amplifying the voice), "but the long o makes a difficulty ...." Klein and Barnhart say it is possibly borrowed from Etruscan phersu "mask." Klein goes on to say this is ultimately of Greek origin and compares Persephone.

Of corporate entities from mid-15c. The use of -person to replace -man in compounds and avoid alleged sexist connotations is first recorded 1971 (in chairperson). In person "by bodily presence" is from 1560s. Person-to-person first recorded 1919, originally of telephone calls.

1. What is the plural of "person"?

person的復數(shù)形式是什么？

來自柯林斯例句

2. The word " person " is a countable noun.

person 這個詞是個可數(shù)名詞.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. She is a long way from being the richest person in Britain.

比起英國首富，她還差得遠呢。

來自柯林斯例句

4. She was a fairly rigid person who had strong religious views.

她相當頑固，宗教觀念極強。

來自柯林斯例句

5. He would be the last person who would do such a thing.

他最不可能干這種事情。

來自柯林斯例句