personal

personal

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English

Alternative forms

  • personall, obsolete

Etymology

    From Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”), equivalent to person +‎ -al. Doublet of personnel.

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/, /ˈpɜːs.nəl/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɜɹ.sə.nəl/, /ˈpɜɹs.nəl/
    • Hyphenation: per‧son‧al‧,‧perso‧nal, perso‧nal

    Adjective

    personal (comparative more personal, superlative most personal)

    1. Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).
    2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals
      personal values; personal desire
    3. Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate.
      personal reasons
    4. (euphemistic) Intended for sexual use.
    5. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily.
    6. Done in person; without an intermediary.
    7. Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
    8. (grammar) Of a noun or pronoun, having reference particular to humans and other entities having personality such as a named animal, a deity, a personification, etc.
    9. (grammar) Related to grammatical first, second, etc. persons.
    10. Denoting ownership.

    Usage notes

    • Not to be confused with personnel (“employees, staff”).

    Derived terms

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    Translations

    Noun

    personal (plural personals)

    1. (chiefly in the plural) An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests.
    2. One's own property or asset
      • 1748, Tobias Smollett (translator), Alain-René Lesage (original), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
        In addition to this, a coarse shirt quite new, a pair of my father's shoes quite old, and, what rejoiced me more than all the rest, a rouleau of twenty rials in a linen rag. Behold the sum total of my personals.

    Translations

    Further reading

    • “personal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

    Anagrams

    • psoralen

    Catalan

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Late Latin persōnālis.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (Central) [pər.suˈnal]
    • IPA(key): (Balearic) [pər.soˈnal]
    • IPA(key): (Valencia) [peɾ.soˈnal]

    Adjective

    personal m or f (masculine and feminine plural personals)

    1. personal
      Antonym: impersonal

    Derived terms

    • personalitzar
    • personalment
    • unipersonal

    Related terms

    • impersonal
    • persona
    • personalitat

    Further reading

    • “personal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
    • “personal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
    • “personal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
    • “personal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

    Cebuano

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English personal, from Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”).

    Pronunciation

    • Hyphenation: per‧so‧nal
    • IPA(key): /peɾˈsonal/ [peɾ̪ˈs̪o.n̪ɐl̪]

    Adjective

    personal

    1. of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general

    Quotations

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:personal.

    German

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Late Latin persōnālis.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /pɛʁzoˈnaːl/
    • Hyphenation: per‧so‧nal

    Adjective

    personal (strong nominative masculine singular personaler, not comparable)

    1. personal

    Declension

    Further reading

    • “personal” in Duden online
    • “personal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

    Indonesian

    Etymology

    From English personal, from Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [pərˈsonal]
    • Hyphenation: per‧so‧nal

    Adjective

    pêrsonal

    1. Synonym of pribadi (“personal”)

    Related terms

    Further reading

    • “personal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

    Interlingua

    Adjective

    personal (comparative plus personal, superlative le plus personal)

    1. personal

    Noun

    personal (uncountable)

    1. staff, personnel

    Ladin

    Adjective

    personal m (feminine singular personala, masculine plural personai, feminine plural personales)

    1. personal

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    Pseudo-anglicism, derived from personal trainer.

    Pronunciation

    • Hyphenation: per‧so‧nal

    Noun

    personal m or f by sense (plural personais)

    1. (Brazil, informal) personal trainer
      Synonyms: PT, personal trainer

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin personalis or German personell or Italian personale or French personnel. By surface analysis, persoană +‎ -al.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /per.soˈnal/
    • Rhymes: -al
    • Hyphenation: per‧so‧nal

    Adjective

    personal m or n (feminine singular personală, masculine plural personali, feminine and neuter plural personale)

    1. personal (relating to the person)
    2. personal (intimate, not to be shared)

    Declension

    Antonyms

    • impersonal

    Derived terms

    • pronume personal
    • tren personal

    Adverb

    personal

    1. personally

    Noun

    personal n (plural personale)

    1. (collective) staff, members of staff, personnel
    2. (countable) Short for tren personal (“stopping train”).

    Declension

    Further reading

    • personal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

    Spanish

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Late Latin persōnālis.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /peɾsoˈnal/ [peɾ.soˈnal]
    • Rhymes: -al
    • Syllabification: per‧so‧nal

    Adjective

    personal m or f (masculine and feminine plural personales)

    1. personal
      Antonym: impersonal

    Derived terms

    Noun

    personal m (plural personales)

    1. personnel, staff
      profesores y personal ― faculty and staff
      personal militar ― military personnel
      personal de seguridad ― security personnel
      personal sanitario ― health workers, healthcare workers, medical personnel
      personal médico ― medical staff, medical personnel; medical practitioners

    Noun

    personal m (uncountable)

    1. (informal) folks, people, mob, crowd; the masses

    Derived terms

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    Further reading

    • “personal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

    Swedish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [pɛʂʊnˈɑːl]

    Noun

    personal c

    1. staff (employees of a business)
      Synonym: arbetskraft

    Declension

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    • personal in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

    Anagrams

    • polarens, polernas

    Tagalog

    Etymology

    Each pronunciation has a different source:

    • With ultimate stress, borrowed from Spanish personal.
    • With antepenultimate stress, borrowed from English personal.

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Tagalog)
      • IPA(key): /peɾsoˈnal/ [pɛɾ.soˈn̪al] (Spanish pronunciation)
        • Rhymes: -al
      • IPA(key): /ˈpeɾsonal/ [ˌpɛɾ.soˈn̪al] (English pronunciation)
        • Rhymes: -eɾsonal
    • Syllabification: per‧so‧nal

    Adjective

    personál or pérsonál (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜇ᜔ᜐᜓᜈᜎ᜔)

    1. personal

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    • “personal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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