privado
English
Noun
privado (plural privados or privadoes)
- (obsolete) A private friend; a confidant.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for privado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin prīvātus (“bereaved; set apart from”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive”), from prīvus (“single, peculiar”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾiˈvadu/, [pɾiˈvaðu]
- Hyphenation: pri‧va‧do
Adjective
privado m (feminine singular privada, masculine plural privados, feminine plural privadas, sometimes comparable)
- (comparable) Concerning only to a person or a specific group; private; personal.
- (not comparable) Not publicly known; not open; secret; private.
- (not comparable) Not accessible by the public; private.
Inflection
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | |
| positive | privado | privada | privados | privadas |
| comparative | mais privado | mais privada | mais privados | mais privadas |
| superlative | o mais privado privadíssimo |
a mais privada privadíssima |
os mais privados privadíssimos |
as mais privadas privadíssimas |
| augmentative | — | — | — | — |
| diminutive | — | — | — | — |
Spanish
Adjective
privado (feminine singular privada, masculine plural privados, feminine plural privadas) (superlative privadísimo)