creta

See also: Creta and cretă

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin creta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɾɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɾə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɾe.ta]

Noun

creta f (plural cretes)

1. chalk

Further reading

• “creta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin creta.

Noun

creta f (plural cretas)

1. chalk

Further reading

• “creta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin creta.

Noun

creta f (plural crete)

1. chalk
2. clay

Anagrams

• carte
• certa
• cetra

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Ladin

Alternative forms

• crëta

Noun

creta f (plural cretes)

1. credit (financial)
2. confidence

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Latin

Etymology 1

• From Crēta ("Cretan earth").
• Or from (terra) crēta, feminine gender of crētus.

Noun

crēta f (genitive crētae); first declension

1. chalk
2. clay, clayey soil

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crēta	crētae
Genitive	crētae	crētārum
Dative	crētae	crētīs
Accusative	crētam	crētās
Ablative	crētā	crētīs
Vocative	crēta	crētae

Derived terms

• crētula

Descendants

• → Dutch: krijt
• → English: creta preparata
• French: craie, crayon
  • → English: crayon
  • → Portuguese: cré
• → Middle High German: krīde
  • → Czech: křída
  • German: Kreide
    • → Ukrainian: кре́йда (kréjda)
  • Vilamovian: krajd
  • Yiddish: קרײַד (krayd)

• Italian: creta
• → Polish: kreda
• Portuguese: creta, greda
• Romanian: cretă
• → Serbo-Croatian: kreda
• → Slovene: kreda
• Spanish: creta, greda

Etymology 2

Participle

(deprecated template usage) crēta

1. nominative feminine singular of crētus
2. nominative neuter plural of crētus
3. accusative neuter plural of crētus
4. vocative feminine singular of crētus
5. vocative neuter plural of crētus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) crētā

1. ablative feminine singular of crētus

References

• “creta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• creta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “creta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “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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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crēta. Compare greda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾeta/ [ˈkɾe.t̪a]
• Hyphenation: cre‧ta

Noun

creta f (uncountable)

1. (geology) chalk (rock)
2. (Dominican Republic) The labia minora; the vaginal lips.

Synonyms

• caliza de Creta