- impersonate
[impersonate 词源字典]
- impersonate: see person
[impersonate etymology, impersonate origin, 英语词源] - impersonate (v.)
- 1620s, "to invest with a personality," from assimilated form of Latin in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + persona "person." Sense of "to assume the person or character of" is first recorded 1715. Earlier in same sense was personate (1610s). Related: Impersonated; impersonating.