EuroLex/E/Top secret
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top secret
- Original language: English
- Original form and meaning: adj. 'of the highest secrecy'
(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)
| Language | Form | Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) | Current Meaning and Status | Earlier Meanings and Statusses | Source |
| Catalan | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Croatian | ... | ... | status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English | '...' | ... |
| Czech | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Danish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Dutch | top secret [= English] | 1970s | the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English | dito | ... |
| English | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Estonian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Finnish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| French | top secret | 1960s | the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: colloquial + word comes from other source than English | dito | ... |
| Frisian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| German | top secret [= English] | 1960s | the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: colloquial | dito | ... |
| Hungarian | top secret [top si:kret] | end20c | the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use > fully accepted, but still marked as English | dito | ... |
| Irish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Italian | top secret | uninfluenced, 1960s | the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial, journalese) | dito | ... |
| Latvian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Lithuanian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Maltese | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Norwegian | top secret [= English] | 1950s | the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use | dito | ... |
| Polish | < najwiekszy sekret | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Portuguese | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Rumantsch | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Slovak | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Slovenian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Spanish | top secret [= English/top sekret] | 1960s | the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use > fully accepted, but still marked as English | dito | ... |
| Swedish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
- Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.
- Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: top secret [= English], uninfluenced, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Romanian: top secret [topsekret], 1990s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: journalese; Russian: status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Bulgarian: < svrukh sekretno (trsl.); Albanian: top sekret, 1970s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: youth; Greek: status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English;,