Crete

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɹiːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -iːt

Proper noun

Crete

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

Related terms

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／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 (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)

(archaic) A Cretan.

Anagrams

erect, recte, terce

Friulian

Proper noun

Crete f

Crete

Related terms

cretês

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