encrypt

English

Etymology

From en- + Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.ˈkrɪpt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Verb

encrypt (third-person singular simple present encrypts, present participle encrypting, simple past and past participle encrypted)

1. To conceal information by means of a code or cipher.

   All messages on this platform are doubly encrypted to increase security.

   Antonym: decrypt

Related terms

• encryption

Translations

to conceal information by means of a code or cipher

• Catalan: encriptar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加密 (zh) (jiāmì)

• Czech: zašifrovat
• Danish: kryptere, enkryptere
• Dutch: versleutelen (nl), coderen (nl), vercijferen (nl), encrypteren
• Esperanto: ĉifri
• Finnish: kryptata, salata (fi), koodata (fi)
• French: coder (fr), chiffrer (fr), crypter (fr)
• German: verschlüsseln (de)
• Hebrew: הצפין‎

• Icelandic: dulrita
• Italian: cifrare (it)
• Japanese: 暗号化する (angōka-suru)
• Korean: 암호화하다 (ko) (amhohwahada)
• Lithuanian: šifruoti
• Polish: szyfrować (pl)
• Portuguese: encriptar (pt)
• Romanian: cripta
• Russian: шифрова́ть (ru) impf (šifrovátʹ), зашифрова́ть (ru) pf (zašifrovátʹ)
• Spanish: cifrar (es), encriptar
• Swedish: kryptera (sv)
• Turkish: şifrelemek (tr)

Further reading

• encrypt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia