privus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *preiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“in front”), with semantic shift "(being) in front" > "being separate".[1] Compare prior, prīmus, prīscus, prīstinus.

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

  • Italian: privo

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prīvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489

Further reading

  • “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.
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