different between peronate vs personate

English

Adjective

peronate (comparative more peronate, superlative most peronate)

1. (mycology) sheathed with a covering

Anagrams

• repeat on

English

Etymology 1

From Latin pers?n?tus

Verb

personate (third-person singular simple present personates, present participle personating, simple past and past participle personated)

1. (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
   • 1873, William Lucas Collins, Plautus and Terence, chapter IV, page 67

     But this latter has, at the suggestion of Tyndarus, exchanged clothes with him, and the slave […] personates the master.

2. (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
3. (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
4. (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

Related terms

• personation
• personative
• personator

Adjective

personate (comparative more personate, superlative most personate)

1. (botany, now uncommon) 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.
   • 1881, Journal of the Northampton Natural History Society and Field Club, page 248:

     This arrangement is well typified in plants with a personate corolla, such as the toad-flax and snap-dragon, ...

   • 2011, Katherine Dunster, Dictionary of Natural Resource Management, UBC Press (?ISBN), page 230:

     Botanically, the palate is a rounded prominence on the lower lip, closing or nearly closing the throat of a personate flower.

Etymology 2

From Latin person? (“cry out”).

Verb

personate (third-person singular simple present personates, present participle personating, simple past and past participle personated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Anagrams

• Esperanto

Latin

Verb

person?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of person?