occulo

From ob- +‎ *celō (“I hide”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéleti (verb), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (root). The same root is found in cēlō (“I hide”) and clam (“secretly, stealthily”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔk.kʊ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔk.ku.lo]

occulō (present infinitive occulere, perfect active occuluī, supine occultum); third conjugation

1. to cover, hide, conceal

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abscondō, abdō, comprimō, prōtegō, cooperiō, obvolvō, premō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.346–353:

     Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros,
     Sparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,
     Aut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;
     Inter enim labentur aquae tenuisque subibit
     Halitus atque animos tollent sata; iamque reperti,
     Qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae
     Urgerent; hoc effusos munimen ad imbris,
     Hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit canis aestifer arva.

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       For the rest, whate'er
       The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon
       Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth
       Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal
       Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween
       Will water trickle and fine vapour creep,
       And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.
       Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone
       Or heavy potsherd press them from above;
       This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this
       When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.

• “occulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “occulo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.