Κρήτη

Ancient Greek

From Κρυς (Krus), mythological hero, probably an indigenous ethnic Pre-Greek name.
One proposal derives it from a hypothetical Luwian *kursatta; cf. kursawar (“island”), kursatta,kursattar (“cutting, sliver”),^[1] 𒆪𒌑𒊒𒈾 (kuruna, “to cut”).

Κρήτη • (Krḗtē) f (genitive Κρήτης); first declension

First declension of ἡ Κρήτη; τῆς Κρήτης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κρήτη hē Krḗtē
Genitive	τῆς Κρήτης tês Krḗtēs
Dative	τῇ Κρήτῃ tēî Krḗtēi
Accusative	τὴν Κρήτην tḕn Krḗtēn
Vocative	Κρήτη Krḗtē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Arabic: كْرِيت (krīt), إِقْرِيطِش (ʔiqrīṭiš)
Basque: Kreta
Bulgarian: Крит (Krit)
Catalan: Creta
Dutch: Kreta
English: Crete
French: Crète
German: Kreta
Greek: Κρήτη (Kríti)
Hebrew: כרתים (Kretim)
Irish: An Chréit
Italian: Creta
Korean: 크레타 (keureta)
Northern Kurdish: Kreta
Latin: Creta
Macedonian: Крит (Krit)
Old Armenian: Կրետէ (Kretē)
- Armenian: Կրետե (Krete)
Ottoman Turkish: كرید (girid), اكریت (igrit)
- Turkish: Girit
- → Armenian: Կիրիտ (Kirit)
Persian: کرت
Portuguese: Creta
Romanian: Creta
Russian: Крит (Krit)
Serbo-Croatian: Крит, Krit, Kreta
Sicilian: Crita
Spanish: Creta
Ukrainian: Крит (Kryt)
Welsh: Creta

“Κρήτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Κρήτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Κρήτη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G2914 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007

Inherited from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Κρήτη • (Kríti) f sg