crypta

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁip.ta/
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Verb

crypta

  1. third-person singular past historic of crypter

Latin

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), female form of the adjective κρυπτός (kruptós).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    crypta f (genitive cryptae); first declension

    1. underground passage, tunnel
    2. crypt; underground room for rites; vault

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative crypta cryptae
    genitive cryptae cryptārum
    dative cryptae cryptīs
    accusative cryptam cryptās
    ablative cryptā cryptīs
    vocative crypta cryptae

    Descendants

    Noun

    crypta

    1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crypton

    References

    • “crypta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “crypta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "crypta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • crypta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “crypta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “crypta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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