The story
- Latin · derived fromcrypta
- Vulgar Latin · derived fromgrupta
- Italian · borrowed fromgrotta
- English todaygrotto
From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt. The Philippine sense is from the holy cave in Lourdes, France.
Words from the same roots
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crypt
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.