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Cryptic is an adjective. It is from the Greek word kryptos, meaning hidden.

A noun (from the root kryptos, a Greek word) is crypt.

Cryptically is the adverb for the adjective cryptic.

Crypto- or crypt- is the combining form, as in cryptography or as in cryptanalysis.

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