crypto的词源

英文词源

crypto-

before vowels crypt-, word-forming element meaning "secret" or "hidden," used in forming English words since at least 1760, from Latinized form of Greek kryptos "hidden, concealed, secret" (see crypt; the Greek comb. form was krypho-). Crypto-fascist is attested from 1937; crypto-communist from 1946.

cryptogram (n.)

1880, from crypto- + gram "word, letter." A modern word coined in English; though the elements are Greek, the ancient Greeks would find it barbarous.

cryptography (n.)

1650s, from French cryptographie or directly from Modern Latin cryptographia, from Greek kryptos "hidden" (see crypt) + -graphy. Related: Cryptograph; cryptographer.

cryptology (n.)

1640s, from crypto- + -ology.

cryptobranchiate

"Designating aquatic invertebrates with concealed gills, especially certain nudibranch molluscs that are able to completely retract their gills; of or relating to such invertebrates", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Owen (1804–1892), comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. From crypto- + -branchiate. With sense 1 compare French cryptobranche.

cryptogam

"A plant that has no true flowers or seeds, including ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae, and fungi", Mid 19th century: from French cryptogame, from modern Latin cryptogamae (plantae), denoting non-flowering plants, from Greek kruptos 'hidden' + gamos 'marriage' (because the means of reproduction was not apparent).

cryptosporidium

"A parasitic coccidian protozoan found in the intestinal tract of many vertebrates, where it sometimes causes disease", Early 20th century: from crypto- 'concealed' + modern Latin sporidium 'small spore'.

cryptoxanthin

"A yellow carotenoid pigment which is a metabolic precursor of vitamin A and is commonly found in plants and in other sources such as egg yolk", 1930s; earliest use found in Chemical Abstracts. From crypto- + xanthin, after German Kryptoxanthin.

cryptorchism

"= cryptorchidism", Mid 19th cent. From German Kryptorchismus, apparently shortened from Kryptorchidismus.

cryptonym

"A code name", Late 19th century: from crypto- 'hidden' + -onym.

cryptovolcanic

"Of a phenomenon or structure (especially a crater): apparently volcanic but occurring or formed in the absence of evident volcanic activity", Early 20th cent.; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science. From crypto- + volcanic, after German kryptovulkanisch.

cryptomeria

"A tall conical coniferous tree with long, curved, spirally arranged leaves and short cones. Native to China and Japan, it is grown for timber in Japan", Modern Latin, from crypto- 'hidden' + Greek meros 'part' (because the seeds are concealed by scales).

中文词源

crypto：(尤指信仰共产主义的)秘密成员   

词根词缀： -crypt-隐藏,秘密 + -o名词词尾

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