1. s. pellis (Ike skin as flayed off; of men, and of animals that have a soft skin): corium (the thick hide of animals, the bull, etc.). [Vid: SKIN.] To dress hides, pelles conficere (Caes.), perficere (Plin.).
2. v. abdere (to put a thing away, to hide; e.g., documents, tabulas): condere (to deposit in a safe place): abscondere (to put away and preserve): recondere (to hide carefully and thoroughly): occulere (to conceal in any way): occultare (to conceal very carefully and anxiously; seldom in negative propositions): celare (to conceal the existence of anything; facts, etc.; opposed to fateri; e.g., sententiam, iram): obscurare (to throw a shade over; e.g., magnitudo lucri obscurabat magnitudinem periculi): abstrudere (to thrust away; to bury under something): dissimulare (to hide by dissembling; e.g., aegritudinem animi, odium). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tegere et dissimulare; dissimulare et occultare. To hide anything from anybody, celare aliquem aliquid (not alicui aliquid; but in the passive celatur mini aliquid occurs, Hirt., B. Alex., 7, 1). To hide anything in a place, abdere aliquid in locum, seldom in loco; ☞ with the past participle the ablative is used, but sometimes the accusative (in tectis silvestribus abditos, Cic.; abditi in tabernaculis, Caes.; in silvam Arduennam abditis, Caes.); occultare aliquid loco or in loco (very seldom in locum; Herzog, Caes., B.G., 7, 85, extr.); anything under anything, abdere aliquid sub aliqua re or intra aliquid (e.g., cultrum veste, ferrum intra vestem); tegere aliquid aliqua re (figuratively; e.g., nomen tyranni humanitate sua). To hide one’s self, delitescere (to lie hid; of persons and things); se abdere in occultum (of persons); occuli, occultari (to be withdrawn from sight; of things; e.g., of stars; opposed to apparere). To hide one’s self or anybody in a place, abdere se or aliquem in aliquem locum (not in aliquo loco; e.g., in terram, in intimam Macedoniam); in the country, rus; in one’s house, domum; there, eo (not ibi); anywhere, aliquo (not alicubi); where, quo (not ubi); wheresoever, quocumque (not ubicumque). [But figuratively, se in litteras, or se litteris abdere, Cic.]. Hidden under the earth, sub terram (not terra) abditus (Cic., Tusc., 2, 25, 60). To hide one’s self anywhere, is also, delitescere in aliquo loco; se occultare loco or in loco (Vid: above). To hide one’s self from anybody, se occultare alicui, or a conspectu alicujus: to be hidden, latere; abditum latere; abditum et inclusum in occulto latere (the last three of keeping one self hidden). More hidden, most hidden, occultior, occultissimus (not abditior, abditissimus, which are late Latin).