Noun: pessoa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pessoa |
| Plural f | pessoas |
Sample Sentences
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Estava a ver/vendo umas pessoas caminhar. (I was watching some people walk.)
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O sujeito portava uma arma em/na sua pessoa. (The person was carrying a weapon in his person.)
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Ele é um pronome da terceira pessoa. (He is a third-person pronoun.)
Nouns inflected like pessoa
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese pessõa, from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon). Doublet of persona. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
pessõa', Latin Nouns '
persōna', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πρόσωπον'.
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