personne

la personne (FR N-F) In French, the single word »personne« can mean either a human being, or no human being, depending on the context, the negative meaning usually carries »ne« with personne, but not always. The personality of someone; the ego; the individual, grammatical role of the subject of a sentence. First appears in French in 1180, from Latin persona, Etruscan word meaning »theater mask.« (Cocteau, Eluard, Haraucourt, Hugo, Mallarmé, Renard)