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Latin
Etymology
From an earlier adverb *clam-de (“secretly”) (from clam and *-de, also seen in unde, etc.), converted to an adjective by analogy to intestīnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
clandestīnus (feminine clandestīna, neuter clandestīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- clandestine, secret, concealed
- Synonyms: obscūrus, sēcrētus, arcānus, occultus
- Antonyms: conspicuus, manifestus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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Descendants
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 117: “clam”
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clandestinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- clandestinus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung