personate

Meanings

1. To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
2. To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
3. To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
4. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

1. Having the throat of a corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip (reminiscent of a mask), as in the flower of the snapdragon.

1. To celebrate loudly; to extol, to praise.

Etymology

From Latin persōnātus.