proprietary

Meaning

Adj

1. Of or relating to property or ownership.
2. Owning something; having ownership.
3. Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
4. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
5. Privately owned.
6. Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

Noun

1. A proprietor or owner.
2. A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
3. The rights of a proprietor.
4. A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
5. A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.

Opposite of

nonproprietary, open source

Synonyms

owner

proprietor

proprietorship

patent

ownership

possession

proprietorial

possessor

monopoly

one’s own

opulence

original

outstanding

patented

patent medicine

peculiar

personal

possessive

possessiveness

private

proper

property right

property rights

rights

company name

not free

proprietary medicine

independently developed

acquirement of wealth

real right

success gained by riches

affluence

drug and medicine

branded

characteristic

exclusive

landlord

liveryman

master

monopolistic

Translations

proprietário

propietario

proprietär

patenteado

müseccel

®️

propriétaire

geheim

㊙️

Eigentum

possessif

geschützt

proprietario

propietari

possessiu

مُسجّلُ المِلْكِيّة

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tə.ɹi/

Etymology

Cognate with Latin: proprietas

In summary

From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).