person
要点人、体、容姿
意味
- (性別・年齢に関係なく)人
- (人間の)体,身体
- 《単数形で》容姿,身なり
- (文法で)人称
例文
This is the person I talked about the other day.
こちらは先日私がお話しした人です。
This person always plays the role of a criminal.
この人いつも犯人役だな。
A small boy needs some person he can look up to.
子供にはだれか尊敬できる人が必要です。
語源
ラテン語persona「役者の仮面」から。仮面劇の役柄役を演じる個人「人」。
personality（人柄）も同じ。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Displaced native Old English hād (“person, individual”). Doublet of parson and persona.
関連する単語
personal personality personally personnel persona
辞書順で近い単語
persistence persistent persistently persona personal personality