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Definition: Arcane |
ArcaneAdjective1. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane science of dowsing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arcane" was first used: 1547. (references) |
Etymology: Arcane \Ar*cane"\, adjective. [Latin expression arcanus.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Arcane |
| Specialty definitions using "arcane": Eric Conspiracy ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ SCSI voodoo, spooge ♦ write-only code. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Arcane" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (secret). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | These include high tariffs, domestic content rules, arcane technical and safety standards, technology transfer requirements, an opaque bidding process, excessive customs valuations, and related measures. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | The judiciary is hampered by arcane legal codes; prosecutors who play a passive role; an underfunded, and understaffed defender's office; judges and lawyers who often lack sufficient training or education; and corruption. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Arcane" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.18% of the time. "Arcane" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.18% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
arcane | 79 | arcane lore | 3 |
arcane class prestige | 12 | arcane knowledge | 3 |
arcane light | 10 | arcane nites | 2 |
arcane light messenger tool | 9 | arcane arts | 2 |
arcane archer | 9 | arcane messenger | 2 |
arcane light messenger | 8 | arcane knight | 2 |
arcane symbol | 5 | adventurers.net arcane | 2 |
arcane estate miller | 4 | arcane mystery | 2 |
arcane school | 4 | arcane trickster | 2 |
arcane through walk | 4 | arcane archer neverwinter night | 2 |
arcane juego | 4 | arcane magic | 2 |
arcane game | 4 | arcane art | 2 |
arcane arena | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "arcane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | misterioz (deep, delphian, dim, mysterious), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | таен (backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, dark, darkling, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, occult, private, privy, recondite, secret, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand), мистериозен (mysterious, mystic, occult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 神秘 (Enigmatic, Enigmatical, Esoteric, Mystical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ésotérique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geheimnisvoll (cryptic, furtive, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, mystical, mysticly, occult, secretive, secretively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απόκρυφος (apocryphal, occult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מסתורי (enigmatic, mysterious, mystic, occult, unearthly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | titkos hatású, misztikus (mysterious, mystic, unearthly), rejtett (clandestine, concealed, covert, dormant, hidden, hooded, hugger-mugger, inner, latent, latent image, occult, perdu, potential, privy, recondite, stealthy, surreptitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | batin (hidden, inner, internal, mental, mind, moral, secret). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | arcano (mysterious, occult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arcaneay arcano (arcanum), secreto (backdoor, blind, classified, close, confidential, cryptic, deep, hole-gauge, inn, inner, occult, off season, private, privy parts, sealed, secret, secretive, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, undercover, underhanded), misterioso (daedal, eery, impenetrable, mysterious, occult, oracular, orphic, recondite, subtil, subtile, subtle, uncanny, unsearchable, weird). (various references) скрытый (clandestine, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, dormant, esoteric, hidden, in disguise, inside, larval, latent, masked, obscure, occult, offstage, quiet, secret, stealthy, supressed, ulterior), тайный (backdoor, clandestine, cryptic, dark, esoteric, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, offscreen, private, privy, quiet, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded). (various references) tajanstven (dark, eldritch, hidden, mysterious, occult, orphic, secretive). (various references) arcano (mystery, secret), secreto (back door, backstairs, classified, covert, crypt, cryptic, dark, hidden, hugger mugger, inside, privacy, private, privy, secrecy, secret, sub rosa, under wraps, underground, unseen). (various references) svårtillgänglig (esoteric), mystisk (inscrutable, mysterious, mysteriousness, mystic, mystical, shadowy, uncanny), hemlig (blind, clandestine, close, concealed, confidential, covert, furtive, hole-and-corner, occult, offscreen, privy, quiet, secret, secretly, sneaking, surreptitious, under cover, underground, underhand, underhanded). (various references) ที่เป็นความลับ. (various references) sır dolu, gizli (back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), esrarlı (cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystical, numinous, occult, secret, unaccountable). (various references) та"мний (back door, backstairs, clandestine, close, closet, colorable, colourable, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hideaway, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, invisible, mystic, occult, occulted, offscreen, private, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover), зата"ний (deep-seated), прихований (blind, bosomed, close, closet, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, furtive, glossy, hideaway, latent, obscure, obumbrate, occulted, privy, secret, stealthy, ulterior, underneath, veiled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arcanus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "arcane": sugarcane. (additional references) | |
Words containing "arcane": carcanet, carcanets, sugarcanes. (additional references) | |
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"Arcane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acan, acana, acane, acine, acrange, Akcije, aracle, aran, arcae, arcage, arcain, arcame, arcan, arcance, Arcand, arcanely, arcanes, arcanest, arcant, arcent, archane, arcin, arcine, arcne, Arcnet, arcon, Argana, Ariake, arican, arkan, arken, armana, arsane, artcan, Ascanio, aucune, ercan, ercans, Jardaneh, marocain, Marocaine, Najrane, orcan, Orcbane, Orciano, paracone, racan, raccine, Raucana, sarcenet, urcan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arcane" (pronounced Ä'rkā"n) |
| 3 | -k ā" n | Cain, cane, cocaine, kain, Kane. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: anear, areca, arena, caner, crane, nacre, rance. | |
-2 letters: acne, acre, area, cane, care, carn, earn, narc, near, race. | |
-3 letters: ace, ana, ane, arc, are, can, car, ear, era, ern, nae, ran, rec. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: acarine, carinae, carnage, cateran. | |
+2 letters: acarines, advancer, archaean, balancer, barnacle, calendar, canaller, canaries, caneware, canvaser, carabine, carageen, carcanet, carinate, carnages, catenary, caterans, catnaper, cesarean, cesarian, craniate, czarevna, dracaena, pancreas, parlance, radiance, reactant, variance. | |
+3 letters: aberrance, aberrancy, advancers, anacruses, anaerobic, anarchies, ancestral, anchorage, androecia, anthraces, archaeans, archangel, arrogance, arsenical, ascertain, assurance, balancers, barnacled, barnacles, braincase, branchiae, caesarean, caesarian, calendars, cameraman, cameramen, canallers, canebrake, canewares, canvasers, canvasser, carabiner, carabines, carageens, caravaned, caravaner, carbonade, carbonate, carcanets, caretaken, carinated, carnelian, carrageen, carronade, catnapers, catnapper, centaurea, cesareans, cesarians, chinaware, cineraria, clearance, comanager, craniates, crankcase, czarevnas, declarant, dracaenas, flagrance, fragrance, incarnate, marchpane, mercaptan, oceanaria, parcenary, parlances, radiances, ransacked, ransacker, reactance, reactants, rebalance, sacrament, sectarian, sugarcane, tarriance, variances. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 63 61 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. -.-. .- -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r c a n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0063 0061 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358469678071 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, chinês, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Indonesian | indonezian, индонезийски език, индонезийски, 印度尼西亞語 , 印度尼西亚语, indonésien, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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