Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryUnderstood by only a few. · Obscure, mysterious. · Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand. · Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-der. Latin arca Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin arcānusbor. English arcane Borrowed from Latin arcānus (“hidden, secret”), from arceō (“to shut up, enclose”); cognate with Latin arca (“a chest”).
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