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A privative, named from Latin privare 'to deprive',[1] is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages, many privatives are prefixes, but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements.
- ^ "privare". William Whitaker's Words. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14.