Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

crypt

/kɹɪpt/ noun

Forms crypts

noun (now rare) A cave or cavern.
noun An underground vault.
noun Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
noun (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
noun (botany) Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
noun (botany) Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.

Synonyms

Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.

noun A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
noun A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.

Etymology [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. Crot, Crotto.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “crypt”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details