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. nominative feminine singular of crētus
2. nominative neuter plural of crētus
3. accusative neuter plural of crētus
4. vocative feminine singular of crētus
5. vocative neuter plural of crētus

(deprecated template usage) crētā

1. 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]
• Hyphenation: cre‧ta

creta f (uncountable)

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

• caliza de Creta