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“conceal” in Latin

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.