privy
adj.adj. to share a secret or have access to private information. You use this when you are part of a small group that knows something others do not.
adj. sharing in the knowledge of something secret or private. Typically follows a linking verb and requires the preposition 'to'.
Only a few people were privy to the secret plan.
As the CEO's personal assistant, she was privy to confidential discussions regarding the upcoming merger.
The legal team was not privy to the internal emails until the court ordered their release during the discovery phase of the trial.
From Middle English pryvy, prive, from Old French privé (“private”), from Latin prīvātus (“deprived”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”). Doublet of private.
Used predicatively after linking verbs like 'be' or 'become'; almost always followed by the preposition 'to'.
he was privy of the secrethe was privy to the secretThe adjective 'privy' collocations with the preposition 'to', not 'of'.