Kréta

See also: kreta, Kreta, krętą, kręta, kréta, and Kretą

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Crēta, from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛːta]
• Hyphenation: Kré‧ta

Proper noun

Kréta f (relational adjective krétský, demonym Kréťan, female demonym Kréťanka)

1. Crete (an island and administrative region of Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea)

Declension

Declension of Kréta (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Kréta
genitive	Kréty
dative	Krétě
accusative	Krétu
vocative	Kréto
locative	Krétě
instrumental	Krétou

Further reading

• “Kréta”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Kréta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Kréta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Crēta, from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkreːta]

Proper noun

Kréta f (relational adjective krétsky, demonym Kréťan, female demonym Kréťanka)

1. Crete (an island and administrative region of Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea)

Declension

Declension of Kréta

	singulare tantum
nominative	Kréta
genitive	Kréty
dative	Kréte
accusative	Krétu
locative	Kréte
instrumental	Krétou

Further reading

• “Kréta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025