Crete

See also: crete, crête, Crète, Crête, and -crete

English

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹiːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Proper noun

Crete

2. An island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece.
4. One of the thirteen regions (peripheries) of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno.

Related terms

• Cretan
• Cretian
• Creticism
• syncretism

Translations

island

• Albanian: Kretë f (indefinite), Kreta f (definite)
• Arabic: كِرِيت f (kirīt), (archaic) إِقْرِيطْش f (ʔiqrīṭš)

  Egyptian Arabic: كريت f (kerīt)

  Hijazi Arabic: كريت f (krīt)

• Armenian: Կրետե (hy) (Krete)

  Old Armenian: Կրետէ (Kretē)

• Aromanian: Crete f (indefinite), Creta f (definite)
• Basque: Kreta
• Belarusian: Крыт m (Kryt)
• Bulgarian: Крит m (Krit)
• Catalan: Creta (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏟᏗᏱ (tlidiyi), ᏝᏞᏖ (tlatlete), ᏟᏗ (tlidi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克里特島 (zh) (Kèlǐtedǎo), 革哩底 (zh) (Gélǐdǐ) (dated)

• Corsican: Creta f
• Czech: Kréta (cs) f
• Danish: Kreta
• Dutch: Kreta (nl) n
• Egyptian: (kftjw)
• Esperanto: Kreto
• Estonian: Kreeta (et)
• Farefare: Kereta
• Finnish: Kreeta (fi)
• French: Crète (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Kreta n

• Friulian: Crete f
• Galician: Creta (gl) f
• Georgian: კრეტა (ḳreṭa)
• German: Kreta (de) n
• Greek: Κρήτη (el) f (Kríti)

  Ancient Greek: Κρήτη f (Krḗtē)

• Hebrew: כְּרֵתִים (he) m (kretím), כַּפְתּוֹר (he) m (kaftór) (biblical)
• Hindi: क्रीट (hi) (krīṭ)
• Hungarian: Kréta (hu)
• Icelandic: Krít (is) f
• Irish: an Chréit f
• Italian: Creta (it) f
• Japanese: クレタ島 (Kureta-tō)
• Kazakh: Крит (Kriyt)
• Korean: 크레타 (keureta)
• Lao: ກະເຣເຕ (ka rē tē), ກະແລັດ (ka læt)
• Latin: Creta (la) f
• Latvian: Krēta f
• Lithuanian: Kreta f
• Macedonian: Крит m (Krit)
• Maltese: Kreta
• Norman: Crête f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kreta

  Nynorsk: Kreta

• Odia: କ୍ରେଟ୍ (kreṭ)
• Old Norse: Krít f
• Persian: کرت (fa) (keret), (archaic) اقریطس (eqritos)
• Polish: Kreta (pl) f
• Portuguese: Creta f
• Romanian: Creta f
• Russian: Крит (ru) m (Krit)
• Sardinian: Creta f
• Scots: Crete
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Крета f, Крит m

  Latin: Kreta (sh) f, Krit m

• Shan: ၵရေႇတေႇ (kǎ rèe tèe)
• Sicilian: Crita f, Creta f
• Slovak: Kréta
• Slovene: Kréta (sl) f
• Spanish: Creta (es)
• Swedish: Kreta (sv)
• Thai: ครีต (krîit)

  Northern Thai: ᨣᩕᩦ᩠ᨲ

• Turkish: Girit (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: كرید (girid)

• Ukrainian: Крит m (Kryt)

Noun

Crete (plural Cretes)

1. (archaic) A Cretan.

See also

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

Anagrams

• erect, recte, terce

Friulian

Proper noun

Crete f

1. Crete (an island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece)
2. Crete (one of the thirteen regions (peripheries) of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno)

Related terms

• cretês

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkreː.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛː.te]

Proper noun

Crētē f sg (genitive Crētēs); first declension

1. alternative form of Crēta

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Crētē
genitive	Crētēs
dative	Crētae
accusative	Crētēn
ablative	Crētē
vocative	Crētē
locative	Crētēs