perso

From Latin Persa, Persēs, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈperso/

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• Rhymes: -erso
• Hyphenation: per‧so

perso (accusative singular person, plural persoj, accusative plural persojn)

1. a Persian (member of the Persian ethnic group)

• persa (“Persian (adjective)”)
• Persio (“Persia”)

perse +‎ -o, derived from perse (“arse”).^[1] Compare dialectal makeaperse (“sweet-toothed person”, literally “sweet ass”), colloquial herkkuperse and e.g. olla makean perään (“to be greedy for sweet”, literally “to be after sweet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈperso/, [ˈpe̞rs̠o̞]
• Rhymes: -erso
• Syllabification^(key): per‧so
• Hyphenation^(key): per‧so

perso (comparative persompi, superlative persoin)

1. greedy [with allative ‘for’] (consumed by selfish desires for something that brings pleasure, e.g. sweet, unhealthy food)

   Nalle Puh on perso hunajalle.

   Winnie the Pooh is greedy for honey.

   Olen todella perso makealle.

   I'm a real sweet tooth.

• perso is seldom used without specifying a specific object for which someone is greedy ('for'), which is expressed with the allative case.
• perso is mostly used of greed or desire for something which one considers to bring pleasure or be attractive, rather than for e.g. material wealth.

• ahnas
• ahne
• nooli (Central and Northern Ostrobothnia)

• “perso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• ropse

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.so/

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Apocope of personnel.

perso (plural persos)

1. (colloquial) personal
2. (colloquial) one's own

   T'as une voiture perso? ― Do you have your own car?

Apocope of personnellement.

perso

1. (colloquial) personally (in one's own opinion)

   Perso, je suis contre l'avortement. ― Personally, I am against abortion.

Apocope of personnage.

perso m (plural persos)

1. (video games) character
   • 2001, Laurent Trémel, Jeux de rôles, jeux vidéo, multimédia. Les faiseurs de mondes, Presses universitaires de France (publ.), page 158.

     Mon voisin craignait de perdre son “perso” (personnage) – “Huls” – un pisteur qu'il chouchoutait depuis quatre ans.

     My neighbor feared losing his character - "Huls" - a tracker he had pampered for four years.

• “perso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pores, poser, prose, repos

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.so/
• Rhymes: -ɛrso
• Hyphenation: pèr‧so

perso (feminine persa, masculine plural persi, feminine plural perse)

1. past participle of perdere

   Synonym: perduto

perso (feminine persa, masculine plural persi, feminine plural perse)

1. lost, wasted

• porse, preso, prose, respo, spero, sperò, spore