English → Latin
“conceal” in Latin
abdōto hide, conceal, keep secret, cover, suppress, sheathe; to remove, put away, set aside; banish; to betake oneself, go aabscondōto hide, conceal, cover, shroud; to store, put away, lay uprecondōto put away, stow away, hoard; to hide or concealocculōto cover, hide, concealoccultōto conceal, hideobscūrōto darken, obscure; to conceal, hide; to blind, becloud understandingabstrūdōto push or thrust away; conceal, hidedissimulōto conceal, hide, or dissimulate a state of mind; to dissemble or disguise, pretend; to disregard, neglect, or ignorecēlōto hide (something from someone), cover, keep a secret, concealclandestīnusclandestine, secret, concealed
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
conceal
abdere (e.g., documents, tabulas): abscondere: recondere (e.g., numos aurumque): occulere. occultare. obscurare (e.g., the greatness of the gain concealed the greatness of the danger, magnitudo lucri obscurabat magnitudinem periculi): abstrudere: dissimulare (e.g., one’s grief, hatred, etc., aegritudinem animi, odium). (the words are found in this connexion and order.) tegere et dissimulare; dissimulare et occultare. celare (one’s opinion, sententiam: one’s anger, iram). [SYN. in HIDE]. Conceal anything from anybody, aliquem aliquid (by no means alicui aliquid: but in the passive one may say celatur mini aliquid; Vid: Oudend., Hirt., B. Alex., 7, 1): to conceal anything somewhere, abdere aliquid in locum or in loco; occultare aliquid loco or in loco (very seldom in locum; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 7, 85, quite at the end): to conceal anything under anything, abdere aliquid sub aliqua re or intra aliquid (e.g., a knife, a sword under one’s robe, cultrum sub veste, ferrum intra vestem): tegere aliquid aliqua, re (figuratively, to cover with anything, to palliate; e.g., the name of tyrant with his affability, nomen tyranni humanitate sua): to conceal one’s self, delitescere (of persons and things): se abdere in occultum (to conceal one’s self in a lurking-place): occuli: occultari (to be removed or to be out of sight, of things; e.g., of stars, opposed to apparere): to conceal one’s self in any place, delitescere in aliquo loco or in loco; se abdere in locum; se occultare loco or in loco (Vid: above): the wild beasts conceal themselves in their lairs, ferae latibulis se tegunt: to conceal one’s self before anybody, se occultare alicui or a conspectu alicujus: to keep one’s self concealed, abditum latere; in occulto se continere; abditum et inclusum in occulto latere: to be concealed, latere.
CONCEALED, occultus (in general): abditus: absconditus: reconditus: (the words are found in this connexion and order), abditus atque reconditus (hidden): clandestinus (clandestine. SYN. in SECRET): incognitus (unknown): to keep one’s self concealed, delitescere: something is not concealed from me, aliquid me non fugit or me non praeterit (aliquid mihi or me non latet, is unclassical).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for conceal?
- The usual Latin words for “conceal” are abdō, abscondō, recondō; also occulō, occultō, obscūrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.