personate
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
- (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
- (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
- (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
Etymology
Derived from Latin persōnātus.
Origin
Latin
persōnātus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dispersonate English
- person English
- personative English
- personator English
- persōnātus Latin