person

• n. 人; 身体; 容貌、外見; 擬人化
• n. （人）人の名前；（仏?露?独）Persson；（スウェーデン語）Persson；（英語）Persson

ラテン語のpersona, 仮面, 役割, 役者, キャラクター, 幻想, 人, から、おそらくpersonare, 声, を通して, per-, を通して, -son, 音, 音を伴う語源, ソノラス. 原義は、仮面を通して音を出す、または音を増幅させることであろう。この語はもともと古代ローマ時代の演劇公演で役者がつけていた仮面であったが、後に様々な意味に拡張された。この言葉はもともと古代ローマ時代の演劇公演で俳優がつけていた仮面であり、その後さまざまな意味に拡張された。

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 の複数形は何ですか？

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

person という言葉は可数名詞です。

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

英国初の金持ちに比べて、彼女はまだまだだ。

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

彼女はかなり頑固で宗教観念が強い。

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

彼がそんなことをするのは最も不可能だ。