crypta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁip.ta/

Verb

crypta

1. third-person singular past historic of crypter

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Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

crypta f (genitive cryptae); first declension

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

Declension

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

• English: crypt
• Catalan: cripta
• Dutch: crypte, krocht, grot
• French: crypte, grotte
• Galician: cripta
• Istriot: gruota

• Italian: cripta, grotta
• Old French: crote, croute
• Portuguese: cripta, gruta
• Romanian: criptă
• Spanish: cripta, gruta
• Venetian: grota

Noun

(deprecated template usage) crypta

1. nominative plural of crypton
2. accusative plural of crypton
3. 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