Creta

See also: creta and cretă

Asturian

Proper noun

Creta f

1. Crete (island)

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Catalan

Proper noun

Creta f

1. Crete

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Galician

Proper noun

Creta f

1. Crete (island)

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Italian

Proper noun

Creta f

1. Crete

Related terms

• cretese

Anagrams

• carte
• certa
• cetra

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē)

Proper noun

Crēta f sg (genitive Crētae); first declension

1. Crete

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Crēta
Genitive	Crētae
Dative	Crētae
Accusative	Crētam
Ablative	Crētā
Vocative	Crēta
Locative	Crētae

Related terms

• Crēs
• Cressa
• Crēsius
• crēta
• Crētaeus

• crētānus
• Crētensis
• crēticus
• Crētis

Descendants

• English: Crete
• Italian: Creta

References

• “Creta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Creta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Creta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Creta f

1. Crete (an island and region of Greece)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Creta f

1. Crete (island)

Derived terms

• cretense