creta

From Latin creta.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɾɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɾə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɾe.ta]

creta f (plural cretes)

1. chalk

• “creta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin creta.

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creta f (plural cretas)

1. chalk

• “creta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From Latin creta.

creta f (plural crete)

1. chalk
2. clay

• carte
• certa
• cetra

• crëta

creta f (plural cretes)

1. credit (financial)
2. confidence

• From Crēta ("Cretan earth").
• Or from (terra) crēta, feminine gender of crētus.

crēta f (genitive crētae); first declension

1. chalk
2. clay, clayey soil

First-declension noun.

• crētula

(deprecated template usage) crēta

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) nominative feminine singular of crētus
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) nominative neuter plural of crētus
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) accusative neuter plural of crētus
4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative feminine singular of crētus
5. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative neuter plural of crētus

(deprecated template usage) crētā

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) ablative feminine singular of crētus

• “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

Borrowed from Latin crēta. Compare greda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾeta/ [ˈkɾe.t̪a]
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: cre‧ta

creta f (uncountable)

1. (geology) chalk (rock)
2. (Dominican Republic) The labia minora; the vaginal lips.

• caliza de Creta