Translation
secretly, in secret
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Examples
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He left the city secretly at night.
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He sent a letter without his father's knowledge.
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They were preparing everything in secret.
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I want to do nothing in secret.
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He came into the camp secretly.
Clam is an adverb first, "secretly", and it doubles as a preposition meaning "unknown to". As a preposition it takes the ablative or the accusative and both are attested: clam patre and clam patrem are equally good Latin, which is unusual enough to be worth remembering.
Its opposite is palam, "openly", and the two often stand together in a single breath - clam an palam, in secret or in the open. The root is the one behind celo, "hide", and English takes clandestine from the adjective clandestinus built on it.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 11: clam, villa, purus and 6 more words.