Noun: pessõa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pessõa |
| Plural f | pessõas |
Sample Sentences
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ſeñor […] guardame mia peſſõa (Lady, save my person) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 55 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/147small.gif] facsimile])]
Nouns inflected like pessõa
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (*φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon). See: Latin Nouns '
persōna', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πρόσωπον'.
Verbs referencing "pessõa"
Portuguese Nouns
pessoa.
Translations