arcane

Etymology
Borrowed from, from ; cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Understood by only a few.
 * 2)  Obscure, mysterious.
 * 3) Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
 * 4) * 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865
 * A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
 * 1) Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
 * 1) Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
 * 2) * 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865
 * A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
 * 1) Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
 * A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
 * 1) Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic: hulinn, dulinn
 * Italian:
 * Latin: arcānus
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: таја̀нствен, ми̏стерио̄зан
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:, , misterioso
 * Swedish:, , , , , ,
 * Turkish:, , ,

Adjective

 * , secret, mysterious

Noun

 * 1)  mysteries, arcanum