Latin

Participle

prīvātus m ‎(feminine prīvāta, neuter prīvātum); first/second declension

1. bereaved, deprived, robbed or stripped of something, having been deprived of something
2. freed, released, set apart, delivered from something, having been released from
3. (by extension) apart from the state; unofficial; peculiar, special, personal, individual, private

Inflection

First/second declension.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From prīvātus, perfect passive participle of prīvō ‎(“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”).

Noun

prīvātus m ‎(genitive prīvātī); second declension

1. A man holding no political office or associated with the cursus honorum.
2. A man in a private life, citizen, member of the public.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• privatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• privatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PRIVATUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “privatus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • private life: vita privata (Senect. 7. 22)
    
  • a civil case: causa privata