crypta

• IPA^(key): /kʁip.ta/

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crypta

1. third-person singular past historic of crypter

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkryp.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrip.t̪a]

crypta f (genitive cryptae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

crypta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crypton

• “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