Meanings
nounprivado (plural privados or privadoes)
plural privados · plural privadoes
- obsoleteA trusted friend; a confidant.
But Lanfrank, being a privado to the pope's projects […]might antedate this objection against Thomas , using it for the present as a rub to retard him
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
Origin
- Latinprivatus
- Spanishprivado
- Englishprivado
Borrowed from Spanish privado, from Latin privatus.
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