Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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.[1]

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.[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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κρύπτω (krúptō)

  1. to hide, cover
  2. to conceal, obscure

Inflection

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: κρύβω (krývo, to conceal, to hide)

References

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  1. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (1999) “The PIE root structure *Te(R)Dʰ-¹)”, in Historische Sprachforschung[1], page 12
  2. ^ 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

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Greek

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾi.pto/
  • Hyphenation: κρύ‧πτω

Verb

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κρύπτω (krýpto) (past έκρυψα) passive -κρύπτομαι (found in compounds)

  1. (dated) Alternative form of κρύβω (krývo)

Usage notes

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  • Found only in compounds.

Conjugation

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  • See compounds
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Compounds:

Other κρυπτ- words

And see κρύβω (krývo) for stems κρυφ-, κρυψ-