Etymology

krypsis

K5R1Y4P3S1I1S1

Today it means: The doctrine that Christ, during His state of humiliation, continued to possess in a veiled way the divine attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, etc. Full definition →

Ancient Greek κρύψις
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκρύψις“hiding, concealment”
  2. English todaykrypsis

From Ancient Greek κρύψις (krúpsis, “hiding, concealment”). Doublet of crypsis.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekκρύψις all →

crypsis

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.