privez

Privez is primarily encountered as a form of the French verb priver, meaning to deprive or take away. In grammar, priver is a regular -er verb, and privez is the second-person plural form used in the present indicative ("you deprive") as well as the second-person plural imperative form used to issue a command to more than one person (equivalent to "deprive!"). For example: "Vous privez vos voisins de leur calme" translates as "You deprive your neighbors of their quiet." The imperative usage is typically found in formal or written contexts and is less common in everyday speech.

Etymology: priver comes from Latin privare "to deprive, to separate," related to privus "private, separated."

Usage notes: In standard French, "privez" does not stand as an independent lexical entry beyond its function as a conjugated form of priver. When encountered in other contexts, the string may appear as a proper name or acronym, but there is no widely documented, canonical entity by that exact name in major reference sources.

See also: priver, privation, private, deprivation.