# κρύπτω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* κρύφω (krúphō) — Koine

### Etymology

Unknown. The etymology determination is complicated by the fact that the word is both in sense and form similar with Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”), thus indicating possible (bi-directional) analogical influence.
Although the word is traditionally compared with the semantically close Proto-Balto-Slavic *kráuˀtei (“to cover, hide”) (whence Russian крыть (krytʹ, “id”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “id”), Lithuanian krovinỹs (“cargo”)), de Vaan notes that Balto-Slavic evidence demands a laryngeal while Greek excludes it, making a formal relation difficult.
Beekes thus suggests possible Pre-Greek origin due to lack of solid Indo-European etymology, but acknowledges that the variation in labial (which he usually considered to be an argument for substrate origin) may be due to aforementioned analogy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /krýp.tɔː/ → /ˈkryp.to/ → /ˈkrip.to/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /krýp.tɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈkryp.to/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈkryp.to/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈkryp.to/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈkrip.to/

### Verb

κρύπτω • (krúptō)
* to hide, cover
* to conceal, obscure

#### Inflection
### Usage notes

An Ionic 3rd person plural perfect form κεκρύφαται (kekrúphatai), a poetic 3rd singular pluperfect κέκρυπτο (kékrupto), and Epic perfect participle κεκρυμμένος (kekrumménos), and an Epic 3rd person singular imperfect form κρύπτασκε (krúptaske) are attested.

#### Synonyms

* (conceal): καλύπτω (kalúptō)

#### Derived terms

* ἀμφικρύπτω (amphikrúptō)
* ἀνακρύπτω (anakrúptō)
* ἀποκρύπτω (apokrúptō)
* διακρύπτω (diakrúptō)
* ἐγκρύπτω (enkrúptō)
* ἐκκρύπτω (ekkrúptō)
* ἐπικρύπτω (epikrúptō)
* κατακρύπτω (katakrúptō)
* κρύβω (krúbō)
* παρακρύπτω (parakrúptō)
* περικρύπτω (perikrúptō)
* προκρύπτω (prokrúptō)
* συγκρύπτω (sunkrúptō)
* ὑποκρύπτω (hupokrúptō)

#### Related terms

* κρυπτάδιος (kruptádios)
* κρυπτεία (krupteía)
* κρυπτέον (kruptéon)
* κρυπτεύω (krupteúō)
* κρυπτή (kruptḗ)
* κρυπτήρ (kruptḗr)
* κρυπτήριος (kruptḗrios)
* κρύπτης (krúptēs)
* κρυπτικός (kruptikós)
* κρυπτίνδα (kruptínda)
* κρυπτός (kruptós)
* κρύφα (krúpha)
* κρυφαῖος (kruphaîos)
* κρυφῇ (kruphêi)
* κρυφία (kruphía)
* κρύφιος (krúphios)
* κρυφός (kruphós)
* κρύψις (krúpsis)

#### Descendants

* Greek: κρύβω (krývo, “to conceal, to hide”)
* English: cryptic (“having hidden meaning”)

### References

* ↑ de Vaan, Michiel (1999) “The PIE root structure *Te(R)Dʰ-¹)”, in Historische Sprachforschung‎, page 12
* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κρύπτω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 786-787

### Further reading

* “κρύπτω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “κρύπτω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “κρύπτω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* κρύπτω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* κρύπτω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “κρύπτω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G2928 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* κρύπτω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɾi.pto/
* Hyphenation: κρύ‧πτω

### Verb

κρύπτω • (krýpto) (past έκρυψα) passive -κρύπτομαι (found in compounds)
* (dated) Alternative form of κρύβω (krývo)

#### Usage notes

* Found only in compounds.

#### Conjugation

* See compounds

#### Related terms

Compounds:
* αποκρύπτω (apokrýpto, “conceal”), αποκρύβω (apokrývo)
* υποκρύπτω (ypokrýpto, “conceal”)
Other κρυπτ- words
* κρύπτη f (krýpti, “crypt”)
* κρυπτο- (krypto-), κρυπτ- (krypt-) like κρυπτογραφώ (kryptografó)
* κρυπτόν n (kryptón, “crypton”) (chemistry)
And see κρύβω (krývo) for stems κρυφ-, κρυψ-