| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sub rosa |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sub ro·sa |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r  z |
| ADVERB: | In secret; privately or confidentially: held the meeting sub rosa. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin sub ros , under the rose (from the practice of hanging a rose over a meeting as a symbol of confidentiality) : sub, under + ros, ablative of rosa, rose. | | OTHER FORMS: | sub-rosa (sb-rz) —ADJECTIVE
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