English

personality

Personality comes from Middle English personalite, via Middle French, from Latin persōnālitās.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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Earliest quotation: c. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a…”

Equivalent to personal + -ity

Latin persōna ‘person’

Late Latin persōnālis ‘of a person’

Anglo-Norman personel

Middle English personal

first attested First attested in the late 14th century (as stated in the etymology)

First attested in the late 14th century.

Every English word from Latin persōnālitās

noun Of people, a set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.