personate

Meanings

Verb

• To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
• To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
• To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
• To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
• To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Adjective

• Having the throat of a corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip (in a way reminiscent of a mask), as in the flower of the snapdragon.

Origin

• From Latin persōnātus
• From Latin personō.