different between privy vs lieu

English

Alternative forms

• privie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pryvy, prive, from Old French privé (“private”), from Latin pr?v?tus (“deprived”), perfect passive participle of pr?v? (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”). Doublet of private.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??v.i/

Adjective

privy (comparative more privy, superlative most privy)

1. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own. [from early 13th c.]

2. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
3. With knowledge of; party to; let in on. [from late 14th c.]

Derived terms

• privy council

Translations

Noun

privy (plural privies)

1. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
2. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
3. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
   • 1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8:

     Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...

4. (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

Synonyms

• (latrine, outhouse, or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (fixture): See Thesaurus:toilet

Derived terms

• privy house

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: loo (in some accents)

Noun

lieu (uncountable)

1. place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of

Translations

Anagrams

• euil, liue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ljø/
• Homophones: lieue, lieus, lieux, lieues

Etymology 1

From Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit
• place

Derived terms

Related terms

• louer
• loyer
• location

Etymology 2

From Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. any of several fish from the Pollachius family.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “lieu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French leu.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux or lieus)

1. place

Descendants

• French: lieu

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse lýðrr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. (Jersey) whiting (fish)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) liug
• (Sutsilvan) liac
• (Surmiran) li
• (Puter, Vallader) lö

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

lieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) place