The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκᾰλύπτρα“hood”
- New Latin · borrowed fromcalyptra
- English todaycalypter
From New Latin calyptra, from Ancient Greek κᾰλύπτρα (kălúptra, “hood”), from κᾰλύπτω (kălúptō, “I cover”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.