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Originally Posted by pelathais
I believe Tertullian used the Latin "persona" as a translation for the Greek hypostasis?
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No, because Latin has the same word "Hypostasis". Nicea was in latin
Greek was hupstasis.
[Late Latin, from Greek hupostasis : hupo-,
hypo- + stasis,
a standing; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
hy'po·stat'ic (hī'pə-stāt'ĭk),
hy'po·stat'i·cal adj.,
hy'po·stat'i·cal·ly adv.
Persona is the Latin of the greek Prosopon