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French
Pronunciation
Verb
crypta
- 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
- underground passage, tunnel
- crypt; underground room for rites; vault
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Noun
crypta
- 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