privatus

Perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”).

prīvātus (feminine prīvāta, neuter prīvātum, adverb prīvātim); first/second-declension participle

1. bereaved, deprived, robbed or stripped of something, having been deprived of something
2. freed, released, set apart, delivered from something, having been released from

First/second-declension adjective.

prīvātus (feminine prīvāta, neuter prīvātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. apart from the state; unofficial, private
2. peculiar, special, personal, individual

First/second-declension adjective.

From prīvātus, perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”).

prīvātus m (genitive prīvātī); second declension

1. A man holding no political office or associated with the cursus honorum.
2. A man in a private life, citizen, member of the public.

Second-declension noun.

• “privatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “privatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• "privatus", 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)
• privatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • private life: vita privata (Senect. 7. 22)
    
  • a civil case: causa privata
    

From Latin privatus, borrowed via other European languages.

privatùs m (feminine privati̇̀, neuter privatù)

1. private (most senses)

• “privatus”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• “privatus”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025