privet

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English

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privet Ligustrum sinense
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Etymology 1

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Particularly: “etymology lacks source to support connection to prime; sources connect to Old English pryfet or pryuet, where -et indicates 'a thicket of'”

Unknown origin, but possibly connected to prime.

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Noun

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privet (countable and uncountable, plural privets)

  1. Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.
    • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur[1]:
      Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
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Etymology 2

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From Russian приве́т (privét, hello, hi).

Interjection

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privet

  1. (informal) Hello, hi.
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Latin

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Verb

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prīvet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of prīvō