privé

See also: prive

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French privé.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

privé (not comparable)

1. private

Declension

Declension of privé
uninflected	privé
inflected	privé
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		privé
indefinite	m./f. sing.	privé
	n. sing.	privé
	plural	privé
definite		privé
partitive		privés

Derived terms

• privéleven

Descendants

• → Indonesian: prive

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French privé, from Latin privātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.ve/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Adjective

privé (feminine privée, masculine plural privés, feminine plural privées)

1. private

Derived terms

• bien privé
• détective privé
• en privé
• secteur privé
• vie privée

Descendants

• → Dutch: privé

Participle

privé (feminine privée, masculine plural privés, feminine plural privées)

1. past participle of priver

Related terms

• apprivoiser

Further reading

• “privé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Noun

privé m (invariable)

1. privy

Anagrams

• pervi, previ, vepri, vipre

Old French

Etymology

From Latin privātus.

Adjective

privé m (oblique and nominative feminine singular privee)

1. private

Derived terms

• priveement

Descendants

• → Middle English: prive, privy
  • English: privy
• French: privé

Spanish

Verb

privé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of privar