Impersonate
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early 17th century (in the sense ‘personify’): from in-2 ‘into’ + Latin persona ‘person’, on the pattern of incorporate .
wiktionary
From im- + person + -ate. Compare incorporate.
etymonline
impersonate (v.)
1620s, "represent in bodily form," from assimilated form of Latin in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + persona "person." Sense of "assume the person or character of" is first recorded 1715; earlier in that sense was personate (1610s). Related: Impersonated; impersonating.
