in petto

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Secret, private.

   “The City of the Sun was a model in petto for the whole earth.”

2. sıfat Designated as a cardinal but not yet announced.

   “In future you will have the right to dress in red — indeed, you are already cardinal in petto, and you will be proclaimed at the next conclave.”

3. zarf Privately, in secret.

   “And yet, thou brave Teufelsdröckh, who could tell what lurked in thee? […] The secrets of man’s Life were laid open to thee; thou sawest into the mystery of the Universe, farther than another; thou hadst in petto thy remarkable Volume on Clothes.”