crypta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁip.ta/

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Verb

crypta

1. third-person singular past historic of crypter

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkryp.ta/, [ˈkrʏpt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkrip.ta/, [ˈkript̪ä]

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

• Istriot:
  • gruota
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: grotta (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Neapolitan: grutta
  • Sicilian: grutta
    • → Catalan: gruta (or from Old Neapolitan)
      • → Galician: gruta
      • → Portuguese: gruta
      • → Spanish: gruta
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: cròta, gruta
  • >? Venetan: grota
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: crote, croute
    • Eastern Oïl: groutte
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: cròta, crota
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: aruta
• → English: crypt
• → Catalan: cripta
• → Dutch: crypte, krocht
• → French: crypte
• → Galician: cripta
• → Italian: cripta
• → Portuguese: cripta
• → Romanian: criptă
• → Spanish: cripta
• → Hungarian: kripta

Noun

crypta

1. nominative/accusative/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