Word Origin Summary

Occultus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• oculto

  Portuguese · derived from

• ockult

  Swedish · borrowed from

• okkult

  German · derived from

• okkultizmus

  Hungarian · derived from

• oculto

  Spanish · derived from

• Okkultismus

  German · derived from

• occult

  English · borrowed from

• オカルト

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root