The story
- Latin · derived fromcryptologia
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκρυπτός“hidden”
- English todaycryptology
From crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκρυπτός all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.