persona non grata

See also: Persona non grata

English

Etymology

From Latin persōna (“person”) + nōn (“not”) + grāta (from grātus (“acceptable”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsəʊnə nɒn ˈɡɹɑːtə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

persona non grata (plural personae non gratae or (proscribed) personas non grata)

1. A person who is not welcome, especially a diplomat in a foreign country.

Antonyms

• persona grata

Translations

a person who is not welcome

• Afrikaans: persona non grata
• Albanian: person i padëshirueshëm
• Arabic: شَخْص غَيْر مَرْغُوب فِيهِ (šaḵṣ ḡayr marḡūb fīhi)
• Armenian: պերսոնա նոն գրատա (hy) (persona non grata)
• Azerbaijani: persona non grata, arzuolunmaz şəxs
• Belarusian: персона нон грата (pjersóna non hrata)
• Bengali: ব্যক্তি অ আস্থাভাজন (bêkti o asthabhajon)
• Bulgarian: персона нон грата (persona non grata)
• Catalan: persona non grata
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不受歡迎的人 / 不受欢迎的人 (zh) (bù shòu huānyíng de rén)

• Czech: persona non grata
• Danish: persona non grata (da)
• Dutch: persona non grata (nl)
• Esperanto: persono non plaĉa
• Estonian: persona non grata (et)
• Finnish: ei-toivottu henkilö, persona non grata (fi)
• French: persona non grata (fr)
• Georgian: პერსონა ნონ გრატა (ṗersona non graṭa)
• German: Persona non grata (de) f
• Greek: ανεπιθύμητο πρόσωπο n (anepithýmito prósopo), πρόσωπο όχι ευπρόσδεκτο (prósopo óchi efprósdekto)
• Hebrew: אִישִׁיּוּת לֹא רְצוּיָה (ishiyut lo retzuya)
• Hindi: अवांछित व्यति (avāñchit vyati)
• Hungarian: persona non grata (hu), nemkívánatos személy
• Icelandic: persónu non grata
• Indonesian: persona non grata
• Irish: persona neamh grata
• Italian: persona non grata
• Japanese: ペルソナ・ノン・グラータ (ja) (perusona-non-gurāta)
• Korean: 페르소나 논 그라타 (pereusona non geurata), 인물이 아닌 그라 (inmuri anin geura)
• Latin: persona non grata
• Latvian: persona non grata
• Lithuanian: persona non grata
• Macedonian: персона нон грата f (persona non grata), непожелна личност f (nepoželna ličnost)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: persona non grata

• Persian: شَخصِ غِیرِ قَابِلِ قَبول (shakhṣ-e gheyr-e qābel-e qabūl)
• Polish: persona non grata (pl) f
• Portuguese: persona non grata f
• Romanian: persoană neacceptată
• Russian: персо́на нон гра́та (ru) f (persóna non gráta), нежела́тельное лицо́ n (neželátelʹnoje licó)
• Serbo-Croatian: persona non grata
• Slovak: persona non grata
• Slovene: persona non grata
• Spanish: persona non grata (es)
• Swedish: persona non grata (sv), varg i veum (sv)
• Thai: บุคคลไม่พึงปรารถนา (bùk-kon-mâi-pʉng-bpràat-tà-nǎa)
• Turkish: istenmeyen kişi (tr), persona non grata (tr)
• Ukrainian: персона нон ґрата (persona non grata)
• Vietnamese: nhân vật không được hoan nghênh, người bị cấm nhập cảnh
• Yiddish: פּערסאָנאַ ניט גראַטאַ (persona nit grata)

See also

• gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, encroacher, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, marplot, buttinsky, busybody

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin persōna nōn grāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɛrsona non ɡrata]

Noun

persona non grata f (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, literary) persona non grata

Further reading

• “persona non grata”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, persōna (“person”) +‎ nōn (“not”) +‎ grāta (“acceptable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /perˈsoː.na noːn ˈɡraː.ta/, [pɛrˈs̠oːnä noːn ˈɡräːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /perˈso.na non ˈɡra.ta/, [perˈsɔːnä nɔn ˈɡräːt̪ä]

Noun

persōna nōn grāta f (genitive persōnae nōn grātae); first declension

1. (This entry is a descendant hub.) person not acceptable

Declension

First-declension noun with an indeclinable portion with a first-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	persōna nōn grāta	persōnae nōn grātae
genitive	persōnae nōn grātae	persōnārum nōn grātārum
dative	persōnae nōn grātae	persōnīs nōn grātīs
accusative	persōnam nōn grātam	persōnās nōn grātās
ablative	persōnā nōn grātā	persōnīs nōn grātīs
vocative	persōna nōn grāta	persōnae nōn grātae

Descendants

• → English: persona non grata
• → Czech: persona non grata
• → Polish: persona non grata
• → Portuguese: persona non grata
• → Slovak: persona non grata
• → Slovene: persona non grata

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin persōna nōn grāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛrˈsɔ.na ˈnɔn ˈɡra.ta/
• Syllabification: per‧so‧na non gra‧ta

Noun

persona non grata f (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, literary) persona non grata

   Synonym: intruz

   Antonym: persona grata

Further reading

• persona non grata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• persona non grata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pessoa non grata, pessoa não grata

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin persōna nōn grāta.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peʁˈsɔ̃.nɐ ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.tɐ/ [pehˈsɔ̃.nɐ ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peʁˈsɔ̃.nɐ ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.tɐ/ [pehˈsɔ̃.nɐ ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.tɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /peɾˈsɔ̃.nɐ ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /peʁˈsɔ̃.nɐ ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.tɐ/ [peχˈsɔ̃.nɐ ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /peɻˈsɔ.na ˈnɔ̃ ˈɡɾa.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨɾˈsɔ.nɐ ˈnɔn ˈɡɾa.tɐ/ [pɨɾˈsɔ.nɐ ˈnɔn ˈɣɾa.tɐ]

Noun

persóna nón gráta f (plural personae non gratae or (proscribed) personas non gratas)

1. persona non grata (a person who is not welcome)

Slovak

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin persōna nōn grāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [persoːna noːn ɡraːta]

Noun

persóna nón gráta f (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, literary) persona non grata

Further reading

• “persona non grata”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin persōna nōn grāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛrsóːna nɔn ɡráːta/

Noun

persọ̑na non grȃta f

1. (diplomacy, literary) persona non grata

Further reading

• “persona non grata”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025