privus
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per. Compare prior, prīmus, prīscus, prīstinus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpriː.u̯us/, [ˈpriːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpri.vus/, [ˈpriːvus]
Adjective
prīvus (feminine prīva, neuter prīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- one's own, private, peculiar, particular
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | prīvus | prīva | prīvum | prīvī | prīvae | prīva | |
| Genitive | prīvī | prīvae | prīvī | prīvōrum | prīvārum | prīvōrum | |
| Dative | prīvō | prīvō | prīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | prīvum | prīvam | prīvum | prīvōs | prīvās | prīva | |
| Ablative | prīvō | prīvā | prīvō | prīvīs | |||
| Vocative | prīve | prīva | prīvum | prīvī | prīvae | prīva | |
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.