Skip to content
Vinony

crypt

noun

  1. stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault
  2. anatomical structure
  3. key derivation function ("password hash")
L22688 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɹɪpt/

noun

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.

  1. A cave or cavern.
  2. An underground vault.
  3. An underground vault.

    “Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher”

    “She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.”

  4. A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.

    “Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa”

    “Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.”

  5. Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
  6. Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.