recondite

Meanings

Adjective

• Difficult, obscure.
• Hidden or removed from view.

Noun

• A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
• A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.

Verb

• To conceal, cover up, hide.

Origin

• . Recondō is derived from re- + condō (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-). The English word is cognate with Catalan recòndit, Italian recondito, Middle French recondit, Portuguese recôndito, Spanish recóndito.
• The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
• The verb is derived from Latin recondere, the present active infinitive of recondō; see above.