Did you know? With its prefix se-, "apart", seclusion has the basic meaning of a place or condition that's "closed away".

What is the root word for secluded?

The root is Latin, secludere, which means "shut off or confine," from se, "apart" and cludere, "to shut." Originally, seclude was used to mean "to enclose or confine," and by the 1620s it also meant "to keep from public view." Definitions of seclude.

What is the prefix of obscure?

historical usage of obscure

The adjective obscure comes from Anglo-French and Middle French oscur, obscur “without light, dark (in color), hard to understand,” from Latin obscūrus “dim, dark, dingy, faint,” an adjective made up of the prefix ob- “toward, against” and the adjective scūrus, which does not occur in Latin.