recondite: [17] Recondite ‘obscure, abstruse’ means etymologically ‘hidden’. It comes from reconditus, the past participle of Latin recondere ‘hide’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘again’ and condere ‘put away, store’ (ultimate source of English condiment [15], literally ‘stored’ or ‘preserved’ food). => condiment
recondite (adj.)
1640s, "removed or hidden from view," from Old French recondit, from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere "store away, hide, conceal, put back again, put up again, lay up," from re- "away, back" (see re-) + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" (see con-) + -dere "to put, place," comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1650s; of writers or sources, "obscure," it is recorded from 1817.
雙語例句
1. Her poems are modishly experi-mental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
她的詩在風格上是時髦的實驗派，主題艱深難懂。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
她的詩在風格上是時髦的實驗派，主題艱深難懂。
來自辭典例句
3. We hear from mathematicians that bees have practically solved a recondite problem.
我們聽到數學家說,蜜蜂已實際解決了一個深奧的數學問題.
來自辭典例句
4. To a craftsman , the ancient article with recondite and scholastic words was too abstruse to understand.
可是對一個車輪師父而言,這些之乎者也的文言文是太深而難懂的.
來自互聯(lián)網
5. Although the calculation method of the average value is simple but its meaning is recondite.