arcane
Pronunciation: /ɑɹˈkeɪn/
The English word “arcane” has 4 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Understood by only a few.
- Obscure, mysterious.
- Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
- Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin arcānus (“hidden, secret”), from arceō (“to shut up, enclose”); cognate with Latin arca (“a chest”).
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