personnage, n.m., personage, person, great person, somebody; (theat.) character, part. C’est un sot —; he is a silly, ignorant fellow. Il joue bien son —; he plays his part well. Je connais le —; I know the fellow. Voilà un plaisant —! what an absurd fellow! Tapisserie à —s; figured tapestry.
personnalité, n.f., personal feeling; self-love, selfishness, egotism; personality; personal remark.
personnat, n.m., sort of benefice.
personne, n.f., person, man, woman, child, female; own self; exterior, appearance; (gram., theol.) person. Jeune —; young lady, young girl. Parlant à sa —; (jur.) speaking to him in person. Les —s de condition; people of fashion. Sans acception de —s; without respect of persons. Il est bien fait de sa —; he has a handsome person or exterior. J’y étais en —; I was there in person. Avoir soin de sa —; to take care of one’s self. Il aime sa —; he loves his dear self. Payer de sa —; to expose one’s self to danger; to be in the thick of the fight or fray; (fig.) to exert one’s self. À la première, seconde, troisième —; (gram.) in the first, second, third, person. C’est la bonté en —; he (or she) is kindness itself.
personne, pron. m., nobody, no man, none, no one; any body, any one. Il n’y a — à la maison; there is nobody at home. Je doute que — y réussisse; I doubt whether any one will or would succeed in it.
personnée, n. and adj. f., (bot.) personate, masked flower; personate, masked.
personnel, -le, adj., personal; selfish.
personnel, n.m., ☉personal character; staff, (all the persons composing any establishment); staff of servants, officials, hands; (milit., nav.) personnel.
personnellement (-nèl-mān), adv., personally.
personnification, n.f., personification, personation.