κρύπτω

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. The etymology determination is complicated by the fact that the word is both in sense and form similar with Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō, to cover), thus indicating possible (bi-directional) analogical influence.

Although the word is traditionally compared with the semantically close Proto-Balto-Slavic *kráuˀtei (to cover, hide) (whence Russian крыть (krytʹ, id), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, id), Lithuanian krovinỹs (cargo)), de Vaan notes that Balto-Slavic evidence demands a laryngeal while Greek excludes it, making a formal relation difficult.[1]

Beekes thus suggests possible Pre-Greek origin due to lack of solid Indo-European etymology, but acknowledges that the variation in labial (which he usually considered to be an argument for substrate origin) may be due to aforementioned analogy.[2]

Pronunciation

 

Verb

κρύπτω (krúptō)

  1. to hide, cover
  2. to conceal, obscure

Inflection

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: κρύβω (krývo, to conceal, to hide)
  • English: cryptic (having hidden meaning)

References

  1. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (1999) “The PIE root structure *Te(R)Dʰ-¹)”, in Historische Sprachforschung, page 12
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κρύπτω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 786-787

Further reading

Greek

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾi.pto/
  • Hyphenation: κρύ‧πτω

Verb

κρύπτω (krýpto) (past έκρυψα) passive -κρύπτομαι (found in compounds)

  1. (dated) Alternative form of κρύβω (krývo)

Usage notes

  • Found only in compounds.

Conjugation

  • See compounds

Compounds:

Other κρυπτ- words

And see κρύβω (krývo) for stems κρυφ-, κρυψ-