perso

From Latin Persa, Persēs, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”).

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• IPA^(key): [ˈperso]
• Rhymes: -erso
• Hyphenation: per‧so

perso (accusative singular person, plural persoj, accusative plural persojn)

1. a Persian (member of the Persian ethnic group)

• persa (“Persian (adjective)”)
• Persio (“Persia”)

perse +‎ -o, derived from perse (“arse”).[1] Compare dialectal makeaperse (“sweet-toothed person”, literally “sweet ass”), colloquial herkkuperse and e.g. olla makean perään (“to be greedy for sweet”, literally “to be after sweet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈperso/, [ˈpe̞rs̠o̞]
• Rhymes: -erso
• Syllabification^(key): per‧so

perso (comparative persompi, superlative persoin)

1. greedy (consumed by selfish desires for something that brings pleasure, e.g. sweet, unhealthy food)

   Nalle Puh on perso hunajalle.

   Winnie the Pooh is greedy for honey.

   Olen todella perso makealle.

   I'm a real sweet tooth.

• perso is seldom used without specifying a specific object for which someone is greedy ('for'), which is expressed with the allative case.
• perso is mostly used of greed or desire for something which one considers to bring pleasure or be attractive, rather than for e.g. material wealth.

• ahnas
• ahne
• nooli (Central and Northern Ostrobothnia)

• “perso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• ropse

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.so/

Apocope of personnel.

perso (plural persos)

1. (colloquial) personal
2. (colloquial) one's own

   T’as une voiture perso? ― Do you have your own car?

Apocope of personnellement.

perso

1. (colloquial) personally (in one's own opinion)

   Perso, je suis contre l’avortement. ― Personally, I am against abortion.

Apocope of personnage.

perso m (plural persos)

1. (video games) character
   • 2001, Laurent Trémel, Jeux de rôles, jeux vidéo, multimédia. Les faiseurs de mondes, Presses universitaires de France (publ.), page 158.

     Mon voisin craignait de perdre son “perso” (personnage) – “Huls” – un pisteur qu’il chouchoutait depuis quatre ans.

     My neighbor feared losing his character - "Huls" - a tracker he had pampered for four years.

• “perso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pores, poser, prose, repos

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.so/
• Rhymes: -ɛrso
• Hyphenation: pèr‧so

perso (feminine persa, masculine plural persi, feminine plural perse)

1. past participle of perdere

   Synonym: perduto

perso (feminine persa, masculine plural persi, feminine plural perse)

1. lost, wasted

• porse, preso, prose, respo, spero, sperò, spore