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Crete
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crete crête Crète Crête -crete
English
Etymology
en :der grc:Κρήτη + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɹiːt/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Crete.wav Southern England
en iːt 1
Proper noun
en Q34374en island in the sea/Mediterranean and the largest in c/Greece.
en 14 October 2026 Alison Francis Rebecca Morelle Kevin Church World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey BBC News They believe it was taking goods to either the ancient city of Troy, in what is now north-western Turkey, or to the Minoan people in Crete. 14 October 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20261014063722/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6gr80rk1yyko
en Q1267522en One of the thirteen <<regions>> (peripheries) of <<c/Greece>>, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno.
Related terms
en Cretan Cretian Creticism syncretism
Translations
island
Albanian: sq Kretë f indefinite, sq Kreta f definite
Arabic: ar كِرِيت f, archaic ar إِقْرِيطْش f
Egyptian Arabic: arz كريت f kerīt
Hijazi Arabic: acw كريت f krīt
Armenian: hy Կրետե
Old Armenian: xcl Կրետէ
Aromanian: rup Crete f indefinite, rup Creta f definite
Basque: eu Kreta
Belarusian: be Крыт m
Bulgarian: bg Крит m
Catalan: ca Creta f
Cherokee: chr ᏟᏗᏱ, chr ᏝᏞᏖ, chr ᏟᏗ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 克里特島 Kèlǐtedǎo, cmn 革哩底 Gélǐdǐ dated
Corsican: co Creta f
Czech: cs Kréta f
Danish: da Kreta
Dutch: nl Kreta n
Egyptian: kftjw k:f-G4-N25
Esperanto: eo Kreto
Estonian: et Kreeta
Farefare: gur Kereta
Finnish: fi Kreeta
French: fr Crète f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Kreta n
Friulian: fur Crete f
Galician: gl Creta f
Georgian: ka კრეტა
German: de Kreta n
Greek: el Κρήτη f
Ancient Greek: grc Κρήτη f
Hebrew: he כְּרֵתִים m kretím, he כַּפְתּוֹר m kaftór biblical
Hindi: hi क्रीट
Hungarian: hu Kréta
Icelandic: is Krít f
Irish: ga Créit f an Chréit
Italian: it Creta f
Japanese: ja クレタ島 Kureta-tō
Kazakh: kk Крит
Korean: ko 크레타
Lao: lo ກະເຣເຕ, lo ກະແລັດ
Latin: la Creta f
Latvian: lv Krēta f
Lithuanian: lt Kreta f
Macedonian: mk Крит m
Maltese: mt Kreta
Norman: nrf Crête f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Kreta
Nynorsk: nn Kreta
Odia: or କ୍ରେଟ୍
Old Norse: non Krít f
Persian: fa کرت keret, archaic fa اقریطس eqritos
Polish: pl Kreta f
Portuguese: pt Creta f
Romanian: ro Creta f
Russian: ru Крит m
Sardinian: sc Creta f
Scots: sco Crete
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Крета f, sh Крит m
Latin: sh Kreta f, sh Krit m
Shan: shn ၵရေႇတေႇ
Sicilian: scn Crita f, scn Creta f
Slovak: sk Kréta
Slovene: sl Kréta f
Spanish: es Creta
Swedish: sv Kreta
Thai: th ครีต
Northern Thai: nod ᨣᩕᩦ᩠ᨲ
Turkish: tr Girit
Ottoman Turkish: ota كرید girid
Ukrainian: uk Крит m
Noun
en archaic A Cretan.
See also
en Attica
en Central Greece
en Central Macedonia
en East Macedonia and Thrace
en Epirus
en Ionian Islands
en North Aegean
en Peloponnese
en South Aegean
en Thessaly
en West Greece
en West Macedonia
Anagrams
en ceert erect recte terce
en exonyms
Friulian
Pronunciation
fur
Proper noun
fur proper noun f
fur Crete Q34374,Q1267522
Related terms
fur cretês
Latin
Pronunciation
Crētē
Proper noun
Crētē<1.loc>
la Crēta
Declension
Crētē<1.loc>