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"privacy" in seven languages

Meaningprivacy

Spanish

privacidad

/pɾibaθiˈdad/

fem.borrowed · English privacy (20th c.)

Intimidad is the older word for one's private life.

French

vie privée

/vi pʁive/

fem.learned

Literally 'private life'; for data, confidentialité.

Italian

privacy

/ˈprajvasi/

fem.borrowed · English privacy

Said the English way; riservatezza is the native alternative.

Portuguese

privacidade

/pɾivasiˈdadʒi/

fem.borrowed · English privacy

Romanian

intimitate

/intimiˈtate/

fem.other source · French intimité, from Latin INTIMUS 'innermost'

In data-protection language Romanian says viață privată or confidențialitate.

Catalan

privacitat

/pɾibəsiˈtat/

fem.borrowed · English privacy

English

privacy

/ˈpɹaɪvəsi/

from Latin/French · English private (Latin PRĪVĀTUS) + -cy

English → ItalianprivacyprivacyCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

PRĪVĀTUM‘set apart, not public’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Privacy is an English idea the sisters took on recently: Spanish adapted it as privacidad, Italian kept the English word, French speaks of vie privée.

English relatives: private, deprive, privilege

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In a sentence

  • esTodo el mundo tiene derecho a la privacidad.
  • frChacun a droit au respect de sa vie privée.
  • itTutti hanno diritto alla privacy.
  • ptTodo mundo tem direito à privacidade.
  • roOricine are dreptul la intimitate.
  • caTothom té dret a la privacitat.
  • enEveryone has a right to privacy.

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