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Crete

Crete

(krēt)

,

Noun.

[L.

Cres

,

Cretis

.]

A Cretan

Definition 2024

Crete

Crete

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

English

Proper noun

Crete

One of the 13 peripheries of Greece; an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Related terms

syncretism

Translations

island

Arabic: كِرِيت f ‎(kirit), (archaic) إِقْرِيطْش f ‎(ʾiqriṭš)
Egyptian Arabic: كريت f ‎(kerit)
Armenian: Կրետե ‎(Krete)
Old Armenian: Կրետէ ‎(Kretē)
Bulgarian: Крит m ‎(Krit)
Catalan: Creta (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)}克里特岛 (zh)
Czech: Kréta (cs) f
Danish: Kreta
Dutch: Kreta (nl) n
Estonian: Kreeta (et)
Finnish: Kreeta (fi)
French: Crète (fr) f
German: Kreta (de) n
Greek: Κρήτη (el) f ‎(Kríti)
Ancient: Κρήτη f ‎(Krḗtē)
Hebrew: כְּרֵתִים (he) m ‎(kretím), כַּפְתּוֹר (he) m ‎(kaftór) (biblical)
Icelandic: Krít (is) f

Italian: Creta (it) f
Japanese: クレタ島 ‎(Kuretatō)
Norman: Crête f
Latin: Creta (la)
Latvian: Krēta f
Lithuanian: Kreta f
Maltese: Kreta
Norwegian:

Bokmål: Kreta

Nynorsk: Kreta
Old Norse: Krít f
Ottoman Turkish: گریت ‎(Girît), گرید ‎(Girît)
Persian: کرت (fa) ‎(Keret), (archaic) اقریطس ‎(eqrits)
Portuguese: Creta f
Romanian: Creta f
Russian: Крит (ru) m ‎(Krit)
Slovak: Kréta
Slovene: Kréta (sl) f
Spanish: Creta
Swedish: Kreta
Turkish: Girit (tr)

See also

Noun

Crete ‎(plural Cretes)

(archaic) A Cretan.

Anagrams

erect
terce

crete

crete

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

Italian

Noun

crete f

plural of creta

Anagrams

certe
cetre

Latin

Participle

crēte

vocative masculine singular of crētus