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personae

personae is a Latin form of persona, meaning “mask; character, role; person, personality”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 70 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.1: … e. postremo aliquos futuros suspicor, qui me ad alias litteras vocent, genus hoc scribendi, etsi sit elegans, personae tamen et dignitatis esse negent.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.7.a: Personae vocabulum quamqualn lepide interpretatusinlterpretatus sit quamque esse vocis eius originem dixerit Gavius Bassus.

All forms of persona (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.