clandestinus

== 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɫan.dɛsˈtiː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [klan.desˈtiː.nus] === 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. ==== Related terms ==== clam clanculum ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: clandestí → English: clandestine → French: clandestin → German: klandestin → Italian: clandestino → Portuguese: clandestino → Romanian: clandestin → Spanish: clandestino === 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