proprietary
English
/pɹəˈpɹɑɪətɛɹi/
adj
Definitions
- Of or relating to property or ownership.
- Owning something; having ownership.
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
- Privately owned.
- (of a) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
Etymology
Derived from French propriétaire derived from Latin proprietarius.
Origin
Latin
proprietarius
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- coproprietor English
- non-proprietary English
- nonproprietary English
- proprietarial English
- proprietarian English
- proprietarianism English
- proprietarily English
- proprietariness English
- proprietor English
- proprietorial English
- proprietorship English
- proprietress English
- proprietrix English
- poropietari Finnish
- proprietarius Latin
- proprietas Latin
- prōprius Latin
- proprietario Italian
- copropriétaire French
- proprieté French
- propriétaire French
- propriétairement French
- *preyH- Proto-Indo-European
- proprietær Norwegian Bokmål
- proprietær Norwegian Nynorsk
- propreté Old French