subreptice
Meaning
surreptitious, furtive
Synonyms
Translations
heimelijk
furtivo
nehînî
subrepticio razberî
kaçamaklı
heimlich
furtivoPronounced as (IPA)
/sy.bʁɛp.tis/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Latin subreptīcius, itself from the past participle of either subripiō (“to snatch away”) or subrēpō (“to creep under”). The adjective having in traditional court the sens of illicit, thus gaining the sens of something made furtively as in illicitly.
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