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.
双语例句
1. Her poems are modishly experi-mental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
她的诗在风格上是时髦的实验派，主题艰深难懂。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
她的诗在风格上是时髦的实验派，主题艰深难懂。
来自辞典例句
3. We hear from mathematicians that bees have practically solved a recondite problem.
我们听到数学家说,蜜蜂已实际解决了一个深奥的数学问题.
来自辞典例句
4. To a craftsman , the ancient article with recondite and scholastic words was too abstruse to understand.
可是对一个车轮师父而言,这些之乎者也的文言文是太深而难懂的.
来自互联网
5. Although the calculation method of the average value is simple but its meaning is recondite.
