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crypt en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kɹɪpt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A cave or cavern.
  2. An underground vault.
  3. An underground vault. ▸ Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
    • On its arrival at Bank, incidentally, the City & South London's directors had threatened to demolish the church of St Mary Woolnoth, but after a public outcry the company built its station in the crypt of the church, the bodies being transferred [...]. Therefore St Mary Woolnoth doesn't have a crypt. Or you could say that its crypt is Bank station. 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 106:
    • Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher
    • She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter. 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/2/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
  4. A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
    • Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa
    • Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections. 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 25:
  5. Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
  6. Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.

Forms

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Coordinates

catacomb · cuniculus · mausoleum · deadhouse · grave · charnel house · ossuary

Deriveds

hemicrypt · undercrypt · cryptitis · cryptal · cryptlike · crypt of Lieberkühn · crypted · cryptid · intestinal crypt

Hypernyms

grave

Relateds

encrypt

Synonyms

sepulcher · fossa · tomb · fovea · sepulchre · vault

Translations (37)

bg крипта (underground vault) · gl cripta (underground vault) · de Krypta (underground vault) · eo kripto (underground vault) · mk гро́бница (underground vault) · cy claddgell (underground vault) · es cripta (underground vault) · ms kripta (underground vault) · fr crypte (underground vault) · nl krocht (underground vault) · pl krypta (underground vault) · fi hautakammio (underground vault) · mk косту́рница (underground vault) · cmn 土窖 (underground vault) · el κρύπτη (underground vault) · ca cripta (underground vault) · fa دخمه (underground vault) · pt cripta (underground vault) · da krypt (underground vault) · ru усыпа́льница (underground vault) · mk кри́пта (underground vault) · hu kripta (underground vault) · pdt Gruft (underground vault) · ro criptă (underground vault) · cs krypta (underground vault) · bg подземие (underground vault) · cmn 地穴 (underground vault) · ja 納骨堂 (underground vault) · sv krypta (underground vault) · tr kripta (underground vault) · ru кри́пта (underground vault) · cy crypt (underground vault) · sk krypta (underground vault) · ru склеп (underground vault) · fi krypta (underground vault) · cmn 隱窩 /隐窝 (underground vault) · it cripta (underground vault)

wikidata: Q192619