arcane
English
/ɑɹˈkeɪn/
adj
Definitions
- Understood by only a few.
- (by extension) 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) root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (guard, protect, hold, shut in).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erk-
Gloss
guard, protect, hold, shut in
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
💂 💂♀️ 💂♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arcana English
- arcanely English
- arcaneness English
- arcanist English
- arcanology English
- coerce English
- coercion English
- Orcus Latin
- arca Latin
- arcanus Latin
- arcarius Latin
- arcella Latin
- arcera Latin
- arcula Latin
- arcus Latin
- arcānus Latin
- arx Latin
- coerceo Latin
- exerceo Latin
- exercitium Latin
- exercitāre Latin
- exercitātiōnem Latin
- porceo Latin
- arca Italian
- arcano Italian
- arcano Spanish, Castilian
- ἀρκέω Ancient Greek
- *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European
- arcano Portuguese
- *arkō Proto-Germanic
- ærc Old English
- ǫrk Old Norse
- arche Old French
- arquire Old French
- arcà Catalan, Valencian
- arcano Galician
- ارگ Persian
- arch Welsh
- áirc, árc Old Irish
- arkë Albanian
- 𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 Gothic
- ark Old Swedish
- *arkeō Proto-Italic
- *pe-arkō, *pearkō Proto-Italic
- arca Old Spanish
- *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ Proto-Norse