Ocultes

Ocultes is a term that may appear in several Romance-language contexts and does not refer to a single, widely recognized concept in English. It is often encountered as a verb form or as a linguistic variant related to words meaning hidden or concealed. The root is generally traced to Latin occultus, meaning hidden or concealed.

In French, the related verb occulter means to conceal or obscure. The form occultes can be found as the second-person singular present indicative, as in Tu occultes les preuves, meaning you conceal the evidence. The same root also yields the noun/adjective family around occultism or things pertaining to the hidden or esoteric.

In European Portuguese, ocultes is commonly seen as a present subjunctive form of ocultar (to hide). For example, in the clause que tu ocultes, meaning that you hide. In everyday usage, other forms such as ocultas or oculta are more typical for indicative or imperative senses in many dialects. The exact spelling ocultes can appear in older or more formal texts and in grammatical tables.

In a broader encyclopedic sense, oculta or occult is often differentiated from occultismus or occultism in various languages. While ocultes itself is not a standalone concept, its appearance as a verb form ties it to actions of hiding or concealing, and in some contexts a closely related noun or adjective may refer to esoteric or hidden knowledge.

See also: occult, occultism, ocultar, oculto.