Crypt (noun)
kr-ipt
An underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place.
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘cavern’): from Latin crypta, from Greek kruptē ‘a vault’, from kruptos ‘hidden’.
Example sentences
“The door creaked as he opened the crypt.”
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