privus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *preiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“in front”), with semantic shift "(being) in front" > "being separate". Compare prior, prīmus, prīscus, prīstinus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpriː.u̯us/, [ˈpriːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpri.vus/, [ˈpriːvus]

Adjective

prīvus (feminine prīva, neuter prīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. one each
2. one's own, private, peculiar, particular
3. (with genitive) deprived of

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	prīvus	prīva	prīvum		prīvī	prīvae	prīva
genitive	prīvī	prīvae	prīvī		prīvōrum	prīvārum	prīvōrum
dative	prīvō	prīvae	prīvō		prīvīs
accusative	prīvum	prīvam	prīvum		prīvōs	prīvās	prīva
ablative	prīvō	prīvā	prīvō		prīvīs
vocative	prīve	prīva	prīvum		prīvī	prīvae	prīva

Derived terms

• prīvō

References

• “privus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “privus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• privus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• privus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.