sub rosa

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Đối diện của
above-board, openly, publicly, open, public, explicit, expressed, spoken
Từ đồng nghĩa

backstage
C1
confidentially
31k
covertly
41k
furtively
off the record
on the sly
quietly
B2
secretly
C1
sneakily
sneakingly
surreptitiously

under one’s hat

Bản dịch

στα κρυφά

confidencialmente

em privacidade

sub rosa

secretamente
en secreto
en confianza
Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˌsʌb ˈɹəʊzə/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

PIE word *upó The adverb and adjective are an unadapted borrowing from Late Latin sub rosā (literally “under the rose”), from Latin sub (“beneath, under”) + rosa (“rose”) (possibly from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *wardah (“flower; rose”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hwerdʰ-, possibly a metathesis of *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; to rise”)). The reason for the reference to a rose is uncertain, though it has been suggested that it derives from the Ancient Greek myth that Aphrodite (the goddess of love) gave a rose to her son Eros (the god of love and sex), who in turn gave it to Harpocrates (the god of silence, confidentiality, and secrets) to ensure that Aphrodite’s sexual indiscretions were not revealed. Roses thus became a symbol of secrecy—they were, for example, used at meetings to pledge the participants not to disclose what had been discussed. Compare under the rose which is attested earlier. The noun is derived from the adverb and adjective.

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