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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrip.ta]

Noun

crypta f (genitive cryptae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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)
    • →? Judeo-Italian: גְרוֹטַה (gəroṭah /⁠grotta⁠/) (Rome)
  • 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
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *krufti
    • Old English: cruft
    • Old Saxon: *kruft
      • Middle Low German: kruft
    • Old Dutch: *kruft, *krucht
      • Middle Dutch: krocht, kroft
        • Dutch: krocht
    • Old High German: chruft, kruft, gruft
      • Middle High German: gruft, kruft
        • German: Gruft

Learned borrowings:

• → English: crypt
• → Catalan: cripta
• → Dutch: crypte
• → French: crypte
• → Galician: cripta
• → German: Krypta
• → 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