personal

• personall (obsolete)

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː.sən.əl/, /ˈpɜːs.nəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜɹ.sən.əl/, /ˈpɜɹs.nəl/

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• Hyphenation: per‧son‧al, perso‧nal

personal (comparative more personal, superlative most personal)

1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
2. 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

   personal question;   personal desire

   Her song was her personal look at the values of friendship.

   You can't read my diary - it is personal.

3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.

   personal charms

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

4. Done in person; without the intervention of another.

   a personal interview;   personal settings

   • '2011, Bob Nelson, ‎Peter Economy, Consulting For Dummies

     Although you miss the nonverbal cues that you pick up in a personal meeting, you can call far more clients in a day than you can meet with in person.

5. Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner

   personal reflections or remarks

6. (grammar) Denoting a person.

   a personal pronoun

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

• personly

• personal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

personal (plural personals)

1. An advertisement by which individuals attempt to meet others with similar interests.
2. A movable; a chattel.

• psoralen

From Late Latin persōnālis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pəɾ.soˈnal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pər.suˈnal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /peɾ.soˈnal/

personal (masculine and feminine plural personals)

1. personal

   Antonym: impersonal

• personalitzar
• personalment
• unipersonal

• impersonal
• persona
• personalitat

• “personal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “personal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

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”).

• Hyphenation: per‧so‧nal

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

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:personal.

personal (comparative plus personal, superlative le plus personal)

1. personal

personal (uncountable)

1. staff, personnel

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

1. personal

From Late Latin persōnālis.

• IPA^(key): /persoˈnal/

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personal (plural personales)

1. personal

   Antonym: impersonal

• personalmente
• unipersonal

personal m (plural personales)

1. personnel, staff

• impersonal
• persona
• personalidad

• “personal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

• IPA^(key): [pɛʂʊnˈɑːl]

personal c

1. staff (employees of a business)