- recondite (adj.)
- 1640s, "removed or hidden from view," from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere "store away," from re- "away, back" (see re-) + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" + -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.