English → Latin
“person” in Latin
speciēsseeing, view, look; spectacle, sight; external appearance, looks; general outline or shapefōrmaform; figure, shape, appearance; fine form; beauty; outline, plan, designcorpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblstōto stand; to stay, remain; to cost, to be set at, stand at (e.g., a price)persōnamask; character, personage, role; personality, character, individualityparsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, sidehomō̆human, person, man; male human being, man; term of address to male peers, especially by another man: man, fellow, mate,
The English word person itself goes back to Latin persōna.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
person
Exterior appearance, species: forma: corpus: statura: statura corporis. (The words are found in this connection and order.) forma et species, et statura (the whole person). To have a fine or handsome person, pulchra esse specie, forma, corporis: of a diminutive person, corpore parvo; statura parva (esse): Dionysius custodiam corporis feris barbaris committebat (the custody of his person, Cic.): to know one by person, nosse aliquem de facie (Cic., Pis., 32, 81).
Part which one plays, persona; partes (plur.). [Vid: PART.]
Individual, persona (with reference to the rank, character, conduct, etc., of the individual): a name is the distinctive appellation of a person, nomen est quod unicuique personae apponitur, quo suo quaeque proprio vocabulo appelletur (Cic.): they gave the same praenomen to three persons successively, continuarunt quodque praenomen per ternas personas (sc. familiae; Suet.): the person of the king, persona regis (e.g., sub specie majestatis occulitur; Justinus): distinguished persons, homines nobiles: to have respect of person, rationem habere, ducere, dignitatis alicujus tribuere, dare aliquid homini (after Cic.); servire personae (Cic.): without respect of person, nulla habita ratione dignitatis, amplitudinis.
A human being (indefinitely), some one, homo (☞ not persona in this sense): three persons are present, adsunt tres homines: to speak against the person, not against the thing, in hominem, non in rem dicere (Sen.).
Party, Vid: : the chief person, caput, princeps, auctor (Vid: HEAD): he was the chief person in the matter, dux, auctor, actor rerum illarum fuit (Cic., pr. Sext., 28, extr.).
Oneself, not a representative, (mea, tua, nostra) persona (ego, tu, nos) in anyone’s person, sumpta alicujus persona; alicujus personam induentes, imitantes (☞ not sub alicujus persona; Vid: Klotz. ad Cic., Tusc., 1, 39, 93).
In grammar, persona (Quint.; e.g., tertia persona).
In theology, hypostasis (Ecclesiastical); or persona (technical term).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for person?
- The usual Latin words for “person” are speciēs, fōrma, corpus; also stō, persōna, pars. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.