Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA cave or cavern. · An underground vault. · Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber. · A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
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