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Jan 28, 2009
This week's themeLatin terms in English This week's words ex libris in medias res dramatis personae lares and penates ex parte Roll the dice Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives 
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with Anu Gargdramatis personae
PRONUNCIATION:
(DRAM-uh-tis puhr-SO-nee)
MEANING:
noun:1. The characters in a play or story. 2. The people involved in an event. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin dramatis personae (persons of the drama), from drama (play) +
persona (mask, character in a play, person).
USAGE:
"The same scene would replay itself again in 2008 with a slight change
in the dramatis personae."Kofi Amenyo; Can the NPP Ever Elect A Non-Twi Speaker; Ghana News; Jan 12, 2009. See more usage examples of dramatis personae in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
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