arcane

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. Understood by only a few.
  2. (broadly) Obscure, mysterious.
  3. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
  4. Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ɑɹˈkeɪn/
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

Borrowed from Latin arcānus (“hidden, secret”), from arceō (“to shut up, enclose”); cognate with Latin arca (“a chest”).

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