Crete

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

English

Etymology

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.
3. One of the thirteen peripheries of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno.

Related terms

• Cretan
• 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
• 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
• Friulian: Crete f
• Galician: Creta (gl) 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 (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
• Northern Thai: ᨣᩕᩦ᩠ᨲ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kreta

  Nynorsk: Kreta

• Old Norse: Krít f
• Ottoman Turkish: كرید (girid)
• 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

  Roman: 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)
• 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

Friulian

Proper noun

Crete f

1. Crete

Related terms

• cretês