UNDER THE ROSE

Definition: UNDER THE ROSE

UNDER THE ROSE

1. [a translation of L. sub rosa], in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Concealment

Januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos; hugger mugger, a la derobee; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table; sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine.

Under the Rose (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

nën dorë (hole-and-corner). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أقل من القيمة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тайно (darkling, furtively, hugger mugger, in camera, in private, inwardly, on the quiet, on the sly, privately, privily, secretly, under the counter, underground, underhand, underhanded), поверително (confidentially, in confidence, in private, privately, privily). (various references)

Czech

dùvìrnì (confidentially, familiarly, in private). (various references)

French

en confidence. (various references)

Hebrew 

בחשאי (secretly, silently). (various references)

Hungarian

titokban (backstage, by stealth, covertly, furtively, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, in a corner, in secret, inly, on the q. t., on the q.t., on the quiet, on the sly, privily, stealthily, surreptitiously, under wraps). (various references)

Pig Latin

erunday ethay oseray

Romanian

în tainã (in secret). (various references)

Russian 

по секрету (confidentially, in secret). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potajno (rose: under the rose, stealth, stealthily, stilly), krišom (furtively, rose: under the rose, stealthily, under the table). (various references)

Swedish

i förtroende. (various references)

Turkish

gizlice (by devious means, by stealth, clandestinely, confidentially, furtively, in privacy, in private, in secret, on the quiet, on the sly, secretly, sub rosa, under the counter, underground), gizli saklı, el altından (by devious means, by stealth, clandestine, clandestinely, hole-and-corner, in secret, on the sly, secretly, slily, sub rosa, surreptitious, under the counter, undercover, underhand, underhanded). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dethroners, southerner, thereunder, thunderers, understeer, unrestored.

-3 letters: dehorners, dethroner, dethrones, deuterons, hereunder, returnees, shortened, shortener, tenderers, threnodes, thunderer, undershot.

-4 letters: dehorner, dentures, deserter, dethrone, deuteron, druthers, endorsee, endorser, enshroud, enterers, enthused, hereunto, honester, hounders, neutered, northers, redhorse, reenters, rehoused, renested, rerouted, reroutes, resented, resorted, restored, returned, returnee, rondures, rounders, roundest, sederunt, shoetree, southern.

+3 letters: superheterodyne.

+4 letters: superheterodynes.