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Latin word privatus comes from Latin privus (One's own, private, peculiar, particular.)
privus (Latin)
One's own, private, peculiar, particular.
privo (Latin)
(with ablative) I free, set apart, release, deliver from something, relieve of.. (with ablative, genitive or accusative) I bereave, deprive, rob or strip of something.
privatus (Latin)
A man holding no political office or associated with the cursus honorum.. A man in a private life, citizen, member of the public.