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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromστεγανός“cover, roof”
- English todaysteganography
From Ancient Greek στεγανός (steganós, “cover, roof”) + -graphy.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekστεγανός all →
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steganography
Today it means: The art and science of concealing a secret message, data, or file within another innocuous message, image, audio file, or physical object in a way that hides the very existence of the hidden information from casual observation. Full definition →
Ancient Greek στεγανός