## Etymology
From Latin reconditus ('hidden, put away'), past participle of recondere ('to store away, conceal'), from re- ('back') + condere ('to put together, hide'), from con- + -dere ('to put').

## AI Etymology
Recondite comes from Latin reconditus ('hidden, put away'), past participle of recondere ('to store away, conceal'), from re- ('back') + condere ('to put together, hide'), from con- + -dere ('to put'). The historical chain includes Latin reconditus and Latin condere. The quoted older senses, "hidden, put away", "to store away, conceal", "back", "to put together, hide", and "to put", supply the semantic anchors for recondite. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, participial, and borrowed: the word recondite carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "little known; abstruse and obscure". English derivatives include reconditely and reconditeness; related English forms include abscond. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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