persoa
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese persõa, pessõa, from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (*φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon).
Related terms
Further reading
- “persoa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
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