privy (adj.) Copy link Outline I. SecretII. Privy to; i. e. acquainted with1. conscius (with gen. or dat. of that which a person is p. to)2. affīnis, e (implicated in) • privy (adj.): I. Secret: prīvātus, sēcrētus: v. private. Esp. in phr., p. member, pudenda, vĕretrum (= penis), etc.: v. genitals. II. Privy to; i. e. acquainted with: 1. conscius (with gen. or dat. of that which a person is p. to): p. to the plot, c. conjurationis, Sall. Cat. 37: Cic.: Tac.: p. to a crime, facinori c., Cic. Clu. 20, 56: with prep.: that Piso was p. to these schemes, his de rebus c. esse Pisonem, id. Att. 2, 24, ad fin.: the person with whom privity is shared is put in dat., which being expressed, the thing concerning which can only be in gen. or with prep.: cf. Sall. Cat. 22, alius alii tanti facinoris conscius and Cic. Att. 1, 18, mihi in privatis omnibus conscius. 2. affīnis, e (implicated in): v. party (VI.). (Also, haud or non ignarus, Sall. Cat. 18, fin.)