Sub Rosa

Definition: Sub Rosa

Sub Rosa

Adverb

1. In secret or covertly; "held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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.

Books

• Sub Rosa (reference)

• Sub Rosa (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series) (reference)

• Sub Rosa : The O. S. S. and American Espionage (reference)

• The Venus Throw (Roma Sub Rosa) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Greek 

στα κρυφά. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubsay osaray

Spanish

secreto (arcane, back door, backstairs, classified, covert, crypt, cryptic, dark, hidden, hugger mugger, inside, privacy, private, privy, secrecy, secret, under wraps, underground, unseen). (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, under the counter, under the rose, underground), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), el altından (by devious means, by stealth, clandestine, clandestinely, hole-and-corner, in secret, on the sly, secretly, slily, surreptitious, under the counter, under the rose, undercover, underhand, underhanded). (various references)

Ukrainian

та�"мно (behind the back, hugger mugger, occultly, secretly, under hand, underground, underhand). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bursas.

-2 letters: basso, boars, boras, brass, buras, bursa, saros, soars, soras, sorbs, sorus, sours, subas, suras.

-3 letters: abos, arbs, bars, bass, boar, boas, bora, boss, bras, bros, bura, burs, buss, oars, orbs, osar, ossa, ours, robs, rubs, sabs, soar, sobs, sora, sorb, sour, sous, suba, subs, sura, urbs, ursa.

-4 letters: abo, abs, arb, ars.

+1 letter: robustas, scabrous, subsolar.

+2 letters: osnaburgs, saboteurs, sourballs, surfboats.

+3 letters: baudronses, brassbound, obscurants, salubrious, scabrously, stirabouts, subrogates, surfboards.

+4 letters: arboviruses, brontosaurs, housebreaks, obituarists, rouseabouts, roustabouts, seaborgiums, soundboards, subjugators, subprograms, superboards, turboshafts, uncrossable.

+5 letters: barrelhouses, brontosaurus, burgomasters, houseboaters, insalubrious, masturbators, nimbostratus, nonreusables, obdurateness, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, salubriously, scabrousness, subcontracts, sublittorals, subordinates, subornations, subrogations, subtractions, superabounds, superposable, surfboarders, thoroughbass.