Crete

Crete

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Proper noun

Crete

1. An island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece.
2. One of the 13 peripheries of Greece; it contains Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethimni.

Related terms

• Cretan
• syncretism

Translations

island

Albanian: Kreta Arabic: كِرِيت‎ f (kirīt), (archaic) إِقْرِيطْش‎ f (ʾiqrīṭš) Egyptian Arabic: كريت‎ f (kerīt) Hijazi Arabic: كريت‎ f (krīt) Armenian: Կրետե (hy) (Krete) Old Armenian: Կրետէ (Kretē) Basque: Kreta Belarusian: Крыт m (Kryt) Bulgarian: Крит m (Krit) Catalan: Creta (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 克里特島／克里特岛 (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 Friulian: Crete f Georgian: კრეტა (ḳreṭa) German: Kreta (de) n Greek: Κρήτη (el) f (Kríti) Ancient: Κρήτη f (Krḗtē) Hebrew: כְּרֵתִים‎ (he) m (kretím), כַּפְתּוֹר‎ (he) m (kaftór) (biblical) Hungarian: Kréta (hu) Icelandic: Krít (is) f Irish: An Chréit f Italian: Creta (it) f Japanese: クレタ島 (Kureta-tō) Kazakh: Крит (Krit) Korean: 크레타 (keureta) Lao: ກະເຣເຕ (lo) (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 Northern Thai: ᨣᩕᩦ᩠ᨲ (nod) Old Norse: Krít f Ottoman Turkish: گریت‎ (Girît), گرید‎ (Girît) Persian: کرت‎ (fa) (Keret), (archaic) اقریطس‎ (eqrits) 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 Roman: Kreta (sh) f, Krit m Shan: ၵရေႇတေႇ (shn) (kǎ rèe tèe) Sicilian: Crita f, Creta f Slovak: Kréta Slovene: Kréta (sl) f Spanish: Creta Swedish: Kreta (sv) Thai: ครีต (krîit) Turkish: Girit (tr) Ukrainian: Крит m (Kryt) West Frisian: Kreta n

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

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Friulian

Proper noun

Crete f

1. Crete

Related terms

• cretês