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creta

See also: Creta and cretă

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin creta. Doublet of greda.

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Noun

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creta f (plural cretes)

  1. chalk (a soft, white, powdery limestone)

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  • guix (“piece of chalk”)

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin creta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾeta/ [ˈkɾe.t̪ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Hyphenation: cre‧ta

Noun

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creta f (plural cretas)

  1. chalk

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin creta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkre.ta/, /ˈkrɛ.ta/[1]
  • Rhymes: -eta, -ɛta
  • Hyphenation: cré‧ta, crè‧ta

Noun

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creta f (plural crete)

  1. chalk
  2. clay

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  1. ^ creta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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Ladin

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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creta f (plural cretes)

  1. credit (financial)
  2. confidence

Latin

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Etymology 1

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Unknown; perhaps:

Noun

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crēta f (genitive crētae); first declension

  1. chalk
  2. clay, clayey soil
Declension
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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative crēta crētae
genitive crētae crētārum
dative crētae crētīs
accusative crētam crētās
ablative crētā crētīs
vocative crēta crētae
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Descendants
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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crēta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 144
  2. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121: “*tkʷreh₁yot- ‘clay’”
  3. ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “×kwraiññe*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 259–260

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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crēta

  1. inflection of crētus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

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crētā

  1. ablative feminine singular of crētus

References

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  • “creta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “creta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • creta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “creta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “creta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin crēta. Compare greda.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾeta/ [ˈkɾe.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Syllabification: cre‧ta

Noun

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creta f (uncountable)

  1. (geology) chalk (rock)
    Synonym: caliza de Creta
  2. (vulgar, Dominican Republic) the labia minora; the vaginal lips

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