Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"privately, secretly," Latin, literally "under the rose," which was regarded as a symbol of secrecy.
Wiktionary
a. Carried out secretly or confidentially adv. In secret or covertly; privately or confidentially. n. (context slang English) Used in workers' compensation cases to mean covert surveillance video used to catch workers' compensation applicants and show that they are in fact not injured.
WordNet
adv. in secret or covertly; "held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism"
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ "Sub Rosa" is the 166th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the 14th episode of the seventh season.
Dr. Crusher attends her grandmother's funeral, and spends time in her grandmother's haunted house, romanced by her grandmother's non-corporeal lover.
The Latin phrase sub rosa means "under the rose", and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality, similar to the Chatham House Rule. The rose as a symbol of secrecy has an ancient history.
Sub Rosa is a record label based in Brussels. The label was established at the end of the ‘80s, and expanded its catalogue in the mid-‘90s through the release of electronic music. Directed by Guy-Marc Hinant and Frédéric Walheer, the label has released over 250 titles. Since 2001, the label has been releasing Hinant's Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music series.
Sub Rosa releases archival material related to twentieth-century avant-garde figures, such as Marcel Duchamp, William S. Burroughs, James Joyce, and Kurt Schwitters. They have also released material from a number of important electronic music composers ( Luc Ferrari, Henri Pousseur, Tod Dockstader, Nam June Paik, Francisco López), and traditional music from around the world (an anthology of Inuit work, Master Musicians of Joujouka, Tibetan and Bhutanese music recorded by John Levy).
Since 2000, Hinant and Lohlé have also run a film production outfit, OME (for Observatoire des musiques électroniques, or Electronic Music Observatory). OME plans to produce documentaries on avant-garde music since World War II.
The name derives from the Latin expression sub rosa, literally translating as "under the rose," and figuratively meaning something secret or undercover.
Sub Rosa is a 2003 album by Swedish artist Eagle-Eye Cherry, his third studio album.
Sub rosa is a Latin phrase connoting secrecy.
Sub rosa or subrosa may also refer to:
- Sub Rosa, NZIC Association, the New Zealand Intelligence Corps association
- Sub Rosa (label), a Belgian music label
- Sub Rosa (company), an American design studio
- "Sub Rosa" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a seventh-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Sub Rosa (NCIS), the seventh episode of the television series NCIS
- Sub Rosa (album), an album by Eagle-Eye Cherry
- Roma Sub Rosa, a series of mystery novels by Steven Saylor set in ancient Rome
- Sub Rosa (Pocahontas, Mississippi), listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hinds County, Mississippi
- Subrosa (band); the band For Squirrels changed their name to Subrosa before disbanding in 2001
- SubRosa (doom metal band), an American doom metal collective; currently active
- Sub Rosa, an album by Mirabilis
- subRosa, a cyberfeminist art collective
Sub Rosa is a strategy and empathic design studio based in New York City. The name sub rosa is Latin for "under the rose" referring to conversations being held in secret. Michael Ventura founded the company in 2004 and serves as its CEO.
Usage examples of "sub rosa".
To such better disposed piggywiggys, I would say, for encouragement, that they have only to keep up appearances by regularly attending church, giving to charities, and always appearing deeply interested in moral philanthropy, to ensure a respectable and highly moral character, and that if they only are clever enough never to be found out, they may, sub rosa, study and enjoy the philosophy of life till the end of their days, and earn a glorious and saintly epitaph on their tombstone, when at last the Devil pegs them out.
I run my boat into New York, buy from Yankee firms, sub rosa, of course, and away I go.
But I think we should squeeze Claire De Haven before we pull back and go sub rosa.
He moved well enough sub rosa, but his resting was better than his active.
The carryall contained several thousand sticks of sub rosa, a pleasure-inducing chemical that was prized by the soldiers stationed on the ships at the front.
The Alliance didn't object to the sale of sub rosa as long as it was properly taxed.
It is primarily a report to the public on the important role that cryptology has played, but it may also orient cryptology with regard to its past and alert historians to the sub rosa influence of cryptanalysis.
Let bun give George Fahdi a false account of the talk with Branson, now that Branson is dead, and then use his own knowledge of the sub rosa deal to ride into power and….
KB: She wont voluntarily assent, so Ill have to rig her apartment sub rosa.
He would loan the fray their illicit writings, which the fray concealed in a secret cache, and so through him I perused the books and plays of Miguel Cervantes sub rosa.
She didn't know how long they'd been watching her, but if they'd had a chance to get to her rooms, she might be carrying a sub rosa caster.