🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

clandestino

Pronunciation / Transliteration: clandestino

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
clandestine/klænˈdɛstɪn/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #7500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Mantuvieron una reunión clandestina."

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1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.

    "They held clandestine meetings in the basement."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from French clandestin or Latin clandestinus, from clam 'secretly', related to caelare 'to hide'.

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