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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
Adjective
prīvus (feminine prīva, neuter prīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- one each
- one's own, private, peculiar, particular
- (with genitive) deprived of
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
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.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489