privet

English

privet Ligustrum sinense

Etymology 1

Unknown origin, but possibly connected to prime.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪ.vɪt/
Rhymes: -ɪvɪt

Noun

privet (plural privets)

Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.
- 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur‎:
  Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.

Derived terms

Egyptian privet
evergreen privet
mock privet

Translations

Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum

Catalan: troana f, olivereta f (Ligustrum vulgare)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女貞 (zh), 女贞 (zh) (nǚzhēn)
Dutch: liguster (nl)
Finnish: likusteri (fi)
French: troène (fr) m
German: Liguster (de) m
Hungarian: fagyal (hu)
Irish: pribhéad m

Italian: ligustro m
Japanese: イボタノキ (ibotanoki)
Maori: hangehange, hengahenga, pāpā, pāhengahenga, pāpāhenga, whangewhange
Polish: ligustr m
Portuguese: alfeneiro m
Romanian: lemn-câinesc (ro) n
Russian: бирючи́на (ru) f (birjučína)
Spanish: alheña (es) f, aligustre (es) m, ligustro m
Welsh: yswydden f, coeden brifet f

Etymology 2

From Russian приве́т (privét, “hello, hi”)

Interjection

privet

(informal) hello, hi

Translations

hello — see hello

Latin

Verb

prīvet

third-person singular present active subjunctive of prīvō

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