Word Origin Summary

Κρυπτός is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Gruft

  German · derived from

• decrypt

  English · derived from

• cripta

  Galician · derived from

• cripto-

  Spanish · derived from

• cripto-

  Portuguese · derived from

• criptorquidia

  Spanish · derived from

• phallocrypt

  English · derived from

• криптон

  Kazakh · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root