The Personality Etymology

Persona literally means “mask“, although it does not usually refer to a literal mask but to the “social masks” all humans supposedly wear.
The word personality derives from the Latin one, persona. A persona, in the word’s everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word derives from the Latin for mask (that actors put on their face during their performance) or “character“, derived from the Etruscan word “phersu“, with the same meaning.