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“hide” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

hide s.
pellis (Ike skin as flayed off; of men, and of animals that have a soft skin): corium (the thick hide of animals, the bull, etc.). [Vid: SKIN.] To dress hides, pelles conficere (Caes.), perficere (Plin.).
hide v.
abdere (to put a thing away, to hide; e.g., documents, tabulas): condere (to deposit in a safe place): abscondere (to put away and preserve): recondere (to hide carefully and thoroughly): occulere (to conceal in any way): occultare (to conceal very carefully and anxiously; seldom in negative propositions): celare (to conceal the existence of anything; facts, etc.; opposed to fateri; e.g., sententiam, iram): obscurare (to throw a shade over; e.g., magnitudo lucri obscurabat magnitudinem periculi): abstrudere (to thrust away; to bury under something): dissimulare (to hide by dissembling; e.g., aegritudinem animi, odium). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tegere et dissimulare; dissimulare et occultare. To hide anything from anybody, celare aliquem aliquid (not alicui aliquid; but in the passive celatur mini aliquid occurs, Hirt., B. Alex., 7, 1). To hide anything in a place, abdere aliquid in locum, seldom in loco; ☞ with the past participle the ablative is used, but sometimes the accusative (in tectis silvestribus abditos, Cic.; abditi in tabernaculis, Caes.; in silvam Arduennam abditis, Caes.); occultare aliquid loco or in loco (very seldom in locum; Herzog, Caes., B.G., 7, 85, extr.); anything under anything, abdere aliquid sub aliqua re or intra aliquid (e.g., cultrum veste, ferrum intra vestem); tegere aliquid aliqua re (figuratively; e.g., nomen tyranni humanitate sua). To hide one’s self, delitescere (to lie hid; of persons and things); se abdere in occultum (of persons); occuli, occultari (to be withdrawn from sight; of things; e.g., of stars; opposed to apparere). To hide one’s self or anybody in a place, abdere se or aliquem in aliquem locum (not in aliquo loco; e.g., in terram, in intimam Macedoniam); in the country, rus; in one’s house, domum; there, eo (not ibi); anywhere, aliquo (not alicubi); where, quo (not ubi); wheresoever, quocumque (not ubicumque). [But figuratively, se in litteras, or se litteris abdere, Cic.]. Hidden under the earth, sub terram (not terra) abditus (Cic., Tusc., 2, 25, 60). To hide one’s self anywhere, is also, delitescere in aliquo loco; se occultare loco or in loco (Vid: above). To hide one’s self from anybody, se occultare alicui, or a conspectu alicujus: to be hidden, latere; abditum latere; abditum et inclusum in occulto latere (the last three of keeping one self hidden). More hidden, most hidden, occultior, occultissimus (not abditior, abditissimus, which are late Latin).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for hide?
The usual Latin words for “hide” are pellō, corium, perficiō; also abdō, condō, abscondō. 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.