crypta

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kʁip.ta/
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Verb

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crypta

  1. third-person singular past historic of crypter

Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crypta f (genitive cryptae); first declension

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

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crypta cryptae
Genitive cryptae cryptārum
Dative cryptae cryptīs
Accusative cryptam cryptās
Ablative cryptā cryptīs
Vocative crypta cryptae

Descendants

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Noun

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crypta

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crypton

References

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  • 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