publicly

English

Alternative forms

• publically (fairly rare)
• publictly (rare, Scotland, from code switching with Scots)

Etymology

From public +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌblɪkli/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

publicly (comparative more publicly, superlative most publicly)

1. In public, openly, in an open and public manner.
2. By, for, or on behalf of the public.

Antonyms

• (openly): privately

Translations

in an open and public manner

• Arabic: عَلَانِيَةً (ʕalāniyatan)
• Catalan: públicament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公開地／公开地 (zh), 公开地 (zh) (gōngkāi de)

• Cornish: yn poblek
• Czech: veřejně (cs)
• Finnish: julkisesti (fi)
• French: publiquement (fr)
• Galician: publicamente
• Irish: os ard
• Italian: pubblicamente (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:
• Latin: pūblicē (la), cōram
• Norman: publyiquement
• Occitan: publicament
• Polish: publicznie (pl)
• Portuguese: publicamente
• Russian: обще́ственно (ru) (obščéstvenno), публи́чно (ru) (publíčno), при всех (pri vsex)
• Scottish Gaelic: gu poblach
• Spanish: públicamente (es)
• Swedish: publikt (sv)

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Scots

Etymology

From Early Modern English publiquely.

Adverb

publicly (not comparable)

1. officially, in the presence of public representatives or on behalf the public
   • 1858, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, quoting Lord Edzell, Lives of the Lindsays‎^[1], page 388:

     Albeit I have stayit here in Edinburgh ane year and three months bygane, craving ever to be tryit of the unhappy slaughter of my umquhile Lord of Spynie, whereof I protest before God and your Majesty I am maist innocent, my Lord of Crawford will neither call me (prosecute me) therefor, nor stay, baith privately and publicly, yea in face of your Majesty's honourable Privy Council, to calumniate me.

2. openly, in the presence of other people

References

• “publicly, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.