* "persona" means "mask" in Latin, which was used in ancient Roman theater to represent different characters.
* "ficare" means "to make" or "to do."
Therefore, "personification" literally means "to make into a person" or "to give human qualities to."
The word entered English in the 15th century, initially meaning "to represent a person." It gradually evolved to describe the literary and artistic technique of giving human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts.