{"id":21909,"date":"2017-06-27T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21909"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:11:41","slug":"english-latin-what-does-sub-rosa-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-latin-what-does-sub-rosa-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English, Latin:  what does <i>sub rosa<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, I constantly await new vocabulary discoveries.  The tutor shares the meaning of <i>sub rosa<\/i>.<\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">sub rosa: <i>(adverb)<\/i> covertly; secretly<\/p>\n<p><i>Sub rosa<\/i>, in Latin, has the literal meaning &#8220;under the rose.&#8221; Roses carried the implication of confidentiality even in ancient times; a room might be stocked with roses before a meeting to remind attendees not to share what&#8217;s said there.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor).  <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary &#038; Thesaurus<\/i>.  Glasgow:  HarperCollins, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/sub%20rosa\">www.merriam-webster.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, I constantly await new vocabulary discoveries. The tutor shares the meaning of sub rosa. sub rosa: (adverb) covertly; secretly Sub rosa, in Latin, has the literal meaning &#8220;under the rose.&#8221; Roses carried the implication of confidentiality even in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-latin-what-does-sub-rosa-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, Latin:  what does <i>sub rosa<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2384],"tags":[2385],"class_list":["post-21909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-latin","tag-what-does-sub-rosa-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21909"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21916,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions\/21916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}