Crete

See also crête

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krētē).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːt

Proper noun

Wikipedia

Crete

1. One of the 13 peripheries of Greece; an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Related terms

• syncretism

Translations

island

• Arabic: كريت (ar) (kirit) f, (archaic) اقريطش (ar) (ʔiqriṭsh) f

  Egyptian Arabic: كريت (kerit) f

• Armenian: Կրետե (hy) (Krete)

  Old Armenian: Կրետէ (Kretē)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克里特岛 (cmn)

• Czech: Kréta (cs) f
• Danish: Kreta (da)
• Estonian: Kreeta (et)
• Finnish: Kreeta (fi)
• French: Crète (fr) f
• German: Kreta (de) n
• Greek: Κρήτη (el) (Kríti) f
• Hebrew: כרתים (he) (kritym)

• Icelandic: Krít (is) f
• Italian: Creta (it) f
• Japanese: クレタ島 (ja)
• Latin: Creta (la)
• Maltese: Kreta (mt)
• Old Norse: Krít f
• Ottoman Turkish: گرید (Girit)
• Persian: کرت (fa) (Keret), (archaic) اقریطس (fa) (eqrits)
• Russian: Крит (ru) (Krit) m
• Slovak: Kréta (sk)
• Slovene: Kréta (sl) f
• Spanish: Creta (es)
• Turkish: Girit (tr)

See also

• Attica
• Central Greece
• Central Macedonia
• East Macedonia and Thrace
• Epirus
• Ionian Islands
• North Aegean
• Peloponnese
• South Aegean
• Thessaly
• West Greece
• West Macedonia

Noun

Crete (plural Cretes)

1. (archaic) A Cretan.

Anagrams

• erect
• terce