creta
See also: Creta and cretă
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin creta. Doublet of greda.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈkɾə.tə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈkɾɛ.tə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈkɾe.ta/
Noun
creta f (plural cretes)
- chalk (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
See also
- guix (“piece of chalk”)
Further reading
- “creta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “creta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “creta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “creta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin creta.
Noun
creta f (plural cretas)
- chalk
Further reading
- “creta” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin creta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkre.ta/, /ˈkrɛ.ta/[1]
- Rhymes: -eta, -ɛta
- Hyphenation: cré‧ta, crè‧ta
Noun
creta f (plural crete)
- chalk
- clay
References
- creta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
- -crate, carte, certa, cetra, tacer, trace
Ladin
Alternative forms
- crëta
Noun
creta f (plural cretes)
- credit (financial)
- confidence
Latin
Etymology 1
Unknown; perhaps:
- From Crēta, thus “Cretan earth”.
- From (terra) crēta (“sifted (earth)”), substantivized from the feminine gender of crētus.
- From an archaic Proto-Indo-European noun *tkʷreh₁-it- (compare Old Irish crē, Welsh pridd, Tocharian A tukri and Tocharian B kwriye, all meaning “clay”)[1][2] plus the thematic feminine ending *-eh₂, but the root would be otherwise unknown.
- An early borrowing from Celtic, or from the same substrate source as the Celtic words.[3] More at Proto-Celtic *kʷrīyess.
Noun
crēta f (genitive crētae); first declension
- chalk
- 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
- crētātus
- crētōsus
- crētula
Descendants
Descendants
- Catalan: greda, → creta
- → Dutch: krijt
- → English: creta preparata
- French: craie, crayon
- → English: crayon
- → Portuguese: cré
- → Middle High German: krīde
- German: Kreide
- → Ukrainian: кре́йда (kréjda)
- Vilamovian: krajd
- Yiddish: קרײַד (krayd)
- → Czech: křída
- → Lower Sorbian: krida
- German: Kreide
- Italian: creta
- → Polish: kreda
- Portuguese: creta, greda
- Romanian: cretă
- → Serbo-Croatian: kreda
- → Slovene: kreda
- Spanish: creta, greda
References
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121: “*tkʷreh₁yot- ‘clay’”
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “×kwraiññe*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 259–260
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “crēta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 144
Participle
crēta
- inflection of crētus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
crētā
- 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
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crēta. Compare greda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾeta/ [ˈkɾe.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: cre‧ta
Noun
creta f (uncountable)
- (geology) chalk (rock)
- Synonym: caliza de Creta
- (Dominican Republic) the labia minora; the vaginal lips
Further reading
- “creta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014