Borrowed from Latin occultus.

• (British) IPA: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/
• (America) IPA: /əˈkʌlt/

occult (occults, present participle occulting; simple past and past participle occulted)

1. (transitive, astronomy) To cover or hide from view.

   The Earth occults the Moon during a lunar eclipse.

2. (transitive, rare) To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.

• French: occulter
• Italian: occultare
• Portuguese: ocultar
• Russian: скрыва́ть

occult

1. (medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.

   occult blood loss; occult cancer

2. Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
3. Esoteric.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗:

     Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

• German: okkult
• Italian: latente, celato, recondito, nascosto
• Portuguese: oculto, ocultado
• Russian: скры́тый

• French: occulte
• German: okkult
• Italian: occulto
• Portuguese: oculto
• Russian: окку́льтный

• Italian: esoterico

occult (uncountable)

1. (usually with "the") Supernatural affairs.

• French: occulte, occultisme
• German: Okkult, Okkultismus
• Italian: occulto, occultismo
• Portuguese: oculto, ocultismo
• Russian: оккульти́зм
• Spanish: oculto, ocultismo

• occultation
• occultive