The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκρύψις“hiding, concealment”
- English todaycrypsis
Probably directly from Ancient Greek κρύψις (krúpsis, “hiding, concealment”); compare Latin crypsis. Doublet of krypsis.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκρύψις all →
krypsis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.