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

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: 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
• 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: 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 (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