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intimitate

privacy /in.ti.mi.taˈte/

noun#3633 most common

Also: intimacy, seclusion

Example sentences

Ea are nevoie de intimitate.
She needs privacy.
Ușa camerei asigură intimitatea familiei.
The bedroom door gives the family privacy.
Rețelele sociale pun în pericol intimitatea utilizatorilor.
Social networks put users' privacy at risk.
Legea protejează dreptul la intimitate al fiecărui cetățean.
The law protects every citizen's right to privacy.
Jurnaliștii au fost acuzați că au încălcat intimitatea vedetei.
Journalists were accused of violating the celebrity's privacy.
Filozofii dezbat de secole granița dintre intimitate și viață publică, fără să ajungă la un consens.
Philosophers have debated the boundary between privacy and public life for centuries, without reaching a consensus.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeintimitateintimități
Genitiveintimitățiintimități
Accusativeintimitateintimități
Vocativeintimitateintimități

Word family

intimintimate, close, private
intimitateathe privacy/intimacy (definite form)
intimistrelating to intimism, an art style focused on private domestic scenes
intimisman artistic movement centered on quiet, private, domestic subjects

Etymology

Intimitate came into Romanian from French intimité in the nineteenth century, part of a wave of French borrowings that reshaped Romanian's abstract vocabulary. French intimité goes back to Latin intimus, meaning innermost, which is the superlative form of interior or in. The Romanian suffix -itate matches the French -ité and Latin -itas, the standard ending for abstract quality nouns in these languages.

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