salesperson

noun

a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)

Roots

sellansales- · Old English · selling personaperson- · Latin · human being, mask/character

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Where does salesperson come from?

The word salesperson breaks down into 2 roots of Old English and Latin origin: sales, from Old English sellan (“selling”); and person, from Latin persona (“human being, mask/character”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.