cryptex點解呀??

這是個新字，字典是無的，是達文西密碼作者 DAN BROWN 於 2003 年創的新字，意指一個手題的密碼盒，用來收藏一些秘密字句。現在已成商品。

The word cryptex is a neologism coined by the author Dan Brown for his 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, denoting a portable vault used to hide secret messages. It is a combination of the words cryptology and codex; "an apt title for this device" since it uses "the science of cryptology to protect information written on the contained scroll or codex" (p. 199 of the novel) – although actually a "codex" is a term for early forms of what would now be called a "book", as opposed to a rolled "scroll". It is claimed in the novel that the original design came from the secret diaries of Leonardo da Vinci. In reality, there is no record of him having designed such a device.

Following the model of "codex" which pluralises as "codices", "cryptex" might be thought to pluralise as "cryptices". However, Brown uses the plural form "cryptexes" in his novel.

In the main part of Brown's novel, the characters (while pursued by various sinister agencies) are trying to access the secret to the Holy Grail by figuring out the passwords that will open two different cryptexes, one hidden within the other to provide extra security. (In the 2006 movie based on the novel, only a single cryptex appears. Its password is the Black Cryptex's password)

在字典中沒有這字 你是否打錯字