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This week's theme Latin terms in English This week's words ex libris in medias res dramatis personae lares and penates ex parte Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Roll the dice Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg dramatis 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. 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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