Kréta

See also: kreta, Kreta, krętą, kręta, kréta, and Kretą

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Crēta, from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛːta]
• Hyphenation: Kré‧ta

Proper noun

Kréta f (related adjective krétský, demonym Kréťan, female demonym Kréťanka)

1. Crete (an island and administrative region of Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea)

Declension

Declension of Kréta (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Kréta
genitive	Kréty
dative	Krétě
accusative	Krétu
vocative	Kréto
locative	Krétě
instrumental	Krétou

Further reading

• “Kréta”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Kréta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Kréta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Crēta, from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkreːta]

Proper noun

Kréta f (genitive singular Kréty, declension pattern of žena)

1. Crete (an island and administrative region of Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea)

References

• “Kréta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024