different between private vs recondite

English

Etymology

From Latin pr?v?tus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from”), perfect passive participle of pr?v? (“I bereave, deprive”), from pr?vus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?a?v?t/, /?p?a?v?t/
• Hyphenation: pri?vate

Adjective

private (comparative more private, superlative most private)

1. Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
2. Not accessible by the public.

3. Not in governmental office or employment.
4. Not publicly known; not open; secret.
5. Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.

6. Not traded by the public.
7. Secretive; reserved.

8. (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
9. (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.

Synonyms

• (done in the view of others): secluded
• (intended only for one's own use): personal
• (not accessible by the public):
• (not publicly known): secret

Antonyms

• public

Hyponyms

• package-private

Translations

Noun

private (plural privates)

1. A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.
2. A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.
   • 1973, Health/PAC Bulletin (issues 48-67, page 2)

     In the cities and towns of California, privates are pressuring county governments to close or reduce in size their hospitals and to pay private hospitals for the care of low-income patients. Thus everything is stacked against public hospitals.

   • 1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, The implementation of employer sanctions: Hearings

     Because you are already moving people with the limitations of what we did in 1982 on the capping of Medicare, you are finding out that the privates are picking up that slack, […]

3. (euphemistic, in the plural) The genitals.
4. (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
5. (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.

   • Nor must I be unmindful of my private.

6. (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
7. (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
8. (usually in the plural) A private lesson.

Synonyms

• (genitals): bits, private parts

Translations

Derived terms

References

• private at OneLook Dictionary Search
• private in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "private" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 242.
• private in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Etymology

From privata (“private”) +? -e (adverbial ending).

Adverb

private

1. privately

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t?

Adjective

private

1. inflection of privat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

private

1. feminine plural of privato

Verb

private

1. feminine plural past participle of privare
2. second-person plural indicative present of privare
3. second-person plural imperative of privare

Anagrams

• prative

Latin

Verb

pr?v?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pr?v?

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

private

1. definite singular of privat
2. plural of privat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

private

1. definite singular of privat
2. plural of privat

Swedish

Adjective

private

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of privat.

English

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Latin reconditus (“concealed, hidden; difficult to understand, unintelligible; shy, withdrawn”), perfect passive participle of recond? (“to conceal, hide; to put away; to re-establish, put back”) + -tus (suffix forming adjectives having the sense ‘provided with’). Recond? is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + cond? (“to conceal, hide; to put away, store; to put together; to build, establish; to fashion, form”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to do, make; to place, put”)). The English word is cognate with Catalan recòndit (“hidden; private”), Italian recondito (“hidden, recondite”), Middle French recondit (“hidden; secret”), Portuguese recôndito (“hidden, secluded; isolated, remote”), Spanish recóndito (“hidden, recondite”).

The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

The verb is derived from Latin recondere, the present active infinitive of recond?; see above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k(?)n?da?t/, /???k?nda?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?n?da?t/, /???k?n?da?t/, /?i?k?n?da?t/
• Hyphenation: re?cond?ite

Adjective

recondite (comparative more recondite, superlative most recondite)

1. (of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure.
   1. Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.
   2. Little known; esoteric, secret.
   3. (of scholars) Having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiae; learned.
   4. (of writers) Deliberately employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references; intentionally obscure.
      • 1788, Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings, II. v. i. 109

        They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.

      • 2004 Autumn, American Scholar, 129

        The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.

2. (somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.
   • 1649, John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia, ii. ii. 108

     The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.

   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters, I. 209

     My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.

   • 1823, Charles Lamb, Old Benchers in Elia, 190

     The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.

   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Canoe Speaks" in Underwoods

     ...following the recondite brook,

     Sudden upon this scene I look,

     And light with unfamiliar face

     On chaste Diana's bathing-place

   • 2002, Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante, 253

     Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream.

   1. (botany, entomology, obsolete, rare, of a structure) Difficult to see, especially because it is hidden by another structure.
      • 1825, Thomas Say, Say's Entomol., Glossary, 28

        Recondite, (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.

   2. (chiefly zoology, rare) Avoiding notice (particularly human notice); having a tendency to hide; shy.

      Synonym: retiring

      • 1835, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 125, 361

        Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.

Derived terms

• reconditely
• reconditeness

Translations

Noun

recondite (plural recondites)

1. (rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
2. (rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.

Verb

recondite (third-person singular simple present recondites, present participle reconditing, simple past and past participle recondited)

1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.

References

Further reading

• recondite at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• centeroid, decretion, red notice, tenrecoid

Italian

Adjective

recondite

1. feminine plural of recondito

Anagrams

• condirete, decretino, intercedo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re?kon.di.te/, [r??k?n?d??t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re?kon.di.te/, [r??k?n?d?it??]

Verb

recondite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recond?