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crypt
A crypt (from Latin ''crypta'' "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics.
Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a church, such as at the Abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre, but were later located beneath chancel, naves and transepts as well. Occasionally churches were raised high to accommodate a crypt at the ground level, such as St Michael's Church in Hildesheim, Germany.
==Etymology==
"Crypt" developed as an alternative form of the Latin ''crypta'' "vault" as it was carried over into Late Latin, and came to refer to the ritual rooms found underneath church buildings. It also served as a vault for storing important and/or sacred items.
"Crypta", however, is also the female form of ''crypto'' "hidden". The earliest known origin of both is in the Ancient Greek ''κρύπτω'' (krupto/krypto), the first person singular indicative of the verb "to conceal, to hide".
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