Pronounced: JIT-nee, noun
Notes: This word seems distantly familiar, but I cannot recall any details
Yesterday’s word
The word personalty is “personal property; movable property, as contrasted with real estate”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
Our word comes to us through multiple stops: from the Anglo-French word personalté, which came from the Latin word personalitas, which came from persona (mask, person), which came from the Etruscan word phersu, which came from the Greek word prosopa (face; mask).
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