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κατάκρυψις

From LSJ

Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

German (Pape)

[Seite 1357] ἡ, das Verbergen, Verheimlichen.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

κατάκρυψις: ἡ παντελὴς κρύψις.