Where does “personate” come from?

Personate comes from Latin personāre, meaning to sound through, from persōna (mask) and sonāre (to sound), ultimately from sonāre meaning to make a sound.

personate (English): To fraudulently portray another person; to...

Definitions

  1. To fraudulently portray another person; to...

Ancestry of “personate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinpersonoI sound through and through, resound, ring; I...
2Latinper-Used to make adjectives or verbs that are "very"...
3Proto-Italicperi-—

Words derived from “personate”

Every word from Proto-Italic peri- →Every word from Latin per- →Every word from Latin persono →