personage的词源

英文词源

personage (n.)

mid-15c., "body of a person" (with regard to appearance), from Old French personage "size, stature," also "a dignitary" (13c.), from Medieval Latin personaticum (11c.), from persona (see person). Meaning "a person of high rank or distinction" is attested from c. 1500 in English; as a longer way to say person, the word was in use from 1550s (but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).

中文词源

personage：名人，要人

来自person,人，-age,集合名词后缀。字面意思即一群人，其原义略带讽刺，后词义褒义化。

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