privado

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English

Etymology

Spanish, from Latin privatus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹɪˈveɪdəʊ/, /pɹɪˈvɑːdəʊ/

Noun

privado (plural privados or privadoes)

  1. (obsolete) A private friend; a confidant.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      But Lanfrank, being a privado to the pope's projects [] might antedate this objection against Thomas , using it for the present as a rub to retard him

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for privado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin prīvātus (bereaved; set apart from), perfect passive participle of prīvō (I bereave, deprive), from prīvus (single, peculiar).

Pronunciation

Adjective

privado (feminine privada, masculine plural privados, feminine plural privadas)

  1. private
  2. deprived
  3. (colloquial) drunk; tipsy; crazy
    • 1423, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 120:
      por quanto diso que él non matara ao dito Gonçaluo Ferrandes, et que se o dito Gonçaluo Ferrandes fora morto, que o fora por sua culpa, como aquel que o cometera de feito e de dereito, primeiramente chamándolle vilaao, fodidincul, curnudo, priuado, perro treedor, dizéndolle outros deostos et injurias atroçes et queréndoo matar dentro en sua casa do dito Johán Ferrandes, deytándolles golpes primeiramente con hua espada nua et cortándolle a roupa que tiña vestida et cuberta con a dita sua espada, defendéndose él dél et dizéndolle que se fose en boa ora
      because he said he didn't kill Gonzalo Fernández, and that if said Gonzalo Fernández was dead, it was his own fault, as committed de facto and de jure; first calling him villain, assfucked, horned, drunk, traitor dog, and other affronts and terrible insults, and wanting to kill him inside the house of the aforementioned Xoán Fernández, hitting him first with drawn sword and cutting the clothes he was wearing; the latter defending himself and telling him to go away for good

Derived terms

Noun

privado m (plural privados)

  1. (archaic) favourite; trusted person

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin prīvātus (bereaved; set apart from), perfect passive participle of prīvō (to bereave, to deprive), from prīvus (single, peculiar).

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: pri‧va‧do

Adjective

privado (feminine privada, masculine plural privados, feminine plural privadas, comparable, comparative mais privado, superlative o mais privado or privadíssimo)

  1. (comparable) Concerning only to a person or a specific group; private; personal
  2. (not comparable) not publicly known; not open; secret; private
  3. (not comparable) not accessible by the public; private

Noun

privado m (plural privados)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) private sector

Participle

privado (feminine privada, masculine plural privados, feminine plural privadas)

  1. past participle of privar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin prīvātus (bereaved; set apart from).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɾiˈbado/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: pri‧va‧do

Adjective

privado (feminine privada, masculine plural privados, feminine plural privadas, superlative privadísimo)

  1. private, privy (e.g. a privy council)
  2. deprived, deprived of, denied, bereft (usually followed by de)
    Ningún niño debe ser privado del derecho a la educación nunca.
    No child should ever be denied the right to education.
  3. unlisted (e.g. phone number)

Derived terms

Participle

privado (feminine privada, masculine plural privados, feminine plural privadas)

  1. past participle of privar

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