Other forms: crypts
A crypt is a stone room beneath a church, used for burials. In the crypt, the crypt below, a Norman crypt.
Being underground and stone-lined, it keeps a steady cool temperature, which is why crypts are used for storage, cafes and concerts as well as burials. The Greek kryptos means hidden, and cryptic and grotto come from the same root.
1nouncryptA stone room beneath a church.
“The old bishops are buried in the crypt under the cathedral.”
crypt is a room.
Latin crypta comes from Greek kryptos, hidden. Grotto is the same word by another road, and cryptic is a relative.
Latin
crypta
English, today
crypt
Learned borrowing from Latin crypta. Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (“hidden”). a doublet of grotto.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA