crypt

1 of 2

noun

ˈkript

: a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground

especially : a vault under the main floor of a church

: a chamber in a mausoleum

: an anatomical pit or depression

: a simple tubular gland

crypt-

2 of 2

combining form

variants or crypto-

: hidden : covered

cryptogenic

: cryptographic

cryptanalysis

Example Sentences

Noun the old church's crypt is the final resting place for the president and his beloved wife

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Ezequiel Banuelos, 25, from Torrance, visits Monroe’s crypt at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park on her 95th birthday.

Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022 In addition to the spacious kitchen and dining room, there’s a library, sewing rooms, a laundry room, a chapel, and a burial crypt, which up until recently held the remains of deceased sisters.

Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022 By way of a thought-provoking memorial, the crypt of the Capuchin church in the center of Vienna has the coffins of 149 members of the Habsburg family, twelve of them emperors.

David Pryce-jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 Her crypt at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park is visited regularly and flowers still arrive nearly daily.

Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022 Officials plan to build the center on a patch of land along Adams Street between Adams National Historic Park and the United First Parish Church — the location of the Adams family crypt.

Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022 Two Marines placed a wreath on the stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims and Biden listened as a cantor recited the remembrance prayer.

Arkansas Online, 14 July 2022 Two Marines placed a wreath on the stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims and Biden listened as a cantor recited the remembrance prayer.

Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022 Two Marines placed a wreath on the stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims.

Josh Boak, Jesef Federman, Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

borrowed from Latin crypta, crupta "covered passage, underground room," borrowed from Greek kryptḗ "underground room," noun derivative from feminine of kryptós "hidden, secret," verbal adjective of krýptein "to hide, conceal," of uncertain origin

Note: The verb krýptein is phonetically and semantically close to kalýptein "to cover, conceal," and the two may have influenced each other. Other forms with which krýptein has been compared, such as Old Church Slavic kryjǫ, kryti "to cover, hide, shroud," Lithuanian kráuju, kráuti "to pile up," are too distant phonetically to allow realistic reconstruction of an Indo-European verbal base. The alternation in consonants between kryp- (in krýptein, kryptós), kryb- (in krýbdēn "secretly"), and kryph- (in kryphêi "in secret," -kryphos "hidden") is apparently the result of both assimilation and analogy.

Combining form

combining form from Greek kryptós "hidden, secret" — more at crypt

First Known Use

Noun

1583, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

单词	crypt
释义	crypt 1 of 2 noun ˈkript 1 a : a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground especially : a vault under the main floor of a church b : a chamber in a mausoleum 2 a : an anatomical pit or depression b : a simple tubular gland crypt- 2 of 2 combining form variants or crypto- 1 : hidden : covered cryptogenic 2 : cryptographic cryptanalysis Synonyms Noun catacomb(s) vault See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun the old church's crypt is the final resting place for the president and his beloved wife Recent Examples on the Web Noun Ezequiel Banuelos, 25, from Torrance, visits Monroe’s crypt at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park on her 95th birthday. Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022 In addition to the spacious kitchen and dining room, there’s a library, sewing rooms, a laundry room, a chapel, and a burial crypt, which up until recently held the remains of deceased sisters. Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022 By way of a thought-provoking memorial, the crypt of the Capuchin church in the center of Vienna has the coffins of 149 members of the Habsburg family, twelve of them emperors. David Pryce-jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 Her crypt at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park is visited regularly and flowers still arrive nearly daily. Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022 Officials plan to build the center on a patch of land along Adams Street between Adams National Historic Park and the United First Parish Church — the location of the Adams family crypt. Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022 Two Marines placed a wreath on the stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims and Biden listened as a cantor recited the remembrance prayer. Arkansas Online, 14 July 2022 Two Marines placed a wreath on the stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims and Biden listened as a cantor recited the remembrance prayer. Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022 Two Marines placed a wreath on the stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims. Josh Boak, Jesef Federman, Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2022 See More Word History Etymology Noun borrowed from Latin crypta, crupta "covered passage, underground room," borrowed from Greek kryptḗ "underground room," noun derivative from feminine of kryptós "hidden, secret," verbal adjective of krýptein "to hide, conceal," of uncertain origin Note: The verb krýptein is phonetically and semantically close to kalýptein "to cover, conceal," and the two may have influenced each other. Other forms with which krýptein has been compared, such as Old Church Slavic kryjǫ, kryti "to cover, hide, shroud," Lithuanian kráuju, kráuti "to pile up," are too distant phonetically to allow realistic reconstruction of an Indo-European verbal base. The alternation in consonants between kryp- (in krýptein, kryptós), kryb- (in krýbdēn "secretly"), and kryph- (in kryphêi "in secret," -kryphos "hidden") is apparently the result of both assimilation and analogy. Combining form combining form from Greek kryptós "hidden, secret" — more at crypt First Known Use Noun 1583, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Medical Definition crypt noun ˈkript 1 : an anatomical pit, depression, or invagination a developing tooth in its bony crypt see tonsillar crypt 2 : a simple tubular gland (as a crypt of Lieberkühn) crypt noun as in tomb an underground burial chamber the old church's crypt is the final resting place for the president and his beloved wife Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance tomb vault mausoleum sepulcher sepulchre catacomb(s) sepulture
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crypt

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