Κρήτη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

• From Κρυς (Krus), mythological hero, probably an indigenous ethnic name.
• One proposal derives it from a hypothetical Luwian *kursatta; cf. kursawar (“island”), kursattar (“cutting, sliver”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɛ̌ː.tɛː/ → /ˈkri.ti/ → /ˈkri.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɛ̌ː.tɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkre̝.te̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.ti/

Proper noun

Κρήτη • (Krḗtē) f (genitive Κρήτης); first declension

1. Crete.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Κρήτη; τῆς Κρήτης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κρήτη hē Krḗtē
Genitive	τῆς Κρήτης tês Krḗtēs
Dative	τῇ Κρήτῃ têi Krḗtēi
Accusative	τὴν Κρήτην tḕn Krḗtēn
Vocative	Κρήτη Krḗtē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Κρής (Krḗs)
• Κρήσιος (Krḗsios)
• Κρῆσσα (Krêssa)
• κρησφύγετον (krēsphúgeton)

• κρησφύγιον (krēsphúgion)
• Κρηταεύς (Krētaeús)
• Κρηταιίς (Krētaiís)
• Κρηταιεύς (Krētaieús)

• Κρηταῖος (Krētaîos)
• Κρητάρχης (Krētárkhēs)
• Κρήτηθε (Krḗtēthe)
• Κρήτηθεν (Krḗtēthen)

• Κρητίζω (Krētízō)
• Κρήτηνδε (Krḗtēnde)
• Κρητικός (Krētikós)
• Κρητογενής (Krētogenḗs)

Descendants

• Arabic: كريت
• Basque: Kreta
• Bulgarian: Крит (Krit)
• Catalan: Creta
• English: Crete
• French: Crète
• German: Kreta
• Greek: Κρήτη (Kríti)
• Hebrew: כרתים (Kretim)
• Italian: Creta
• Kurdish: Kreta
• Latin: Creta

• Macedonian: Крит (Krit)
• Old Armenian: Կրետէ (Kretē)
  • Armenian: Կրետե (Krete)
• Persian: کرت
• Portuguese: Creta
• Romanian: Creta
• Russian: Крит (Krit)
• Serbo-Croatian: Крит, Krit, Kreta
• Sicilian: Creta
• Spanish: Creta
• Turkish: Girit
• Ukrainian: Крит (Kryt)

References

• “Κρήτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Κρήτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Κρήτη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2914 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkriti/
• Hyphenation: Κρή‧τη

Proper noun

Κρήτη • (Kríti) f

1. Crete (biggest island in Greece)

Declension

  Κρήτη

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Κρήτη •
genitive	Κρήτης •
accusative	Κρήτη •
vocative	Κρήτη •

Derived terms

• Κρητικός m (Kritikós, “male Cretan”)
• Κρητικιά f (Kritikiá, “female Cretan”)
• κρητικός (kritikós) (adjective)

Further reading

• Κρήτη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el