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persona muta

persona muta noun: a nonspeaking role, a silent actor.

Noun

persona muta

  1. A nonspeaking role, a silent actor.
    • She will be a persona muta, a non-speaking actor. She will thus have in this episode the function that her father had during the preceding stasimon, except that she will act. And since she will act, she, that is, the movement of her body in the stage space, […]1996, Lowell Edmunds, Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 69

Origin of persona muta

From Latin mūta persōna (“silent character”).

Questions about persona muta

What does persona muta mean?
Persona muta means a nonspeaking role, a silent actor.
What part of speech is persona muta?
Persona muta is a noun.

Words near persona muta in the dictionary

  1. person-to-person
  2. person-year
  3. person-years
  4. persona
  5. persona grata
  6. persona muta
  7. persona non grata
  8. personability
  9. personable
  10. personableness
  11. personably

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