English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːt/
- Rhymes: -iːt
Proper noun
Crete
- An island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece.
- One of the thirteen regions (peripheries) of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno.
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
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Noun
Crete (plural Cretes)
- (archaic) A Cretan.
See also
Anagrams
Friulian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Crete f
- Crete (an island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece)
- Crete (one of the thirteen regions (peripheries) of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno)