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Borrowed from Latin creta. Doublet of greda.
creta f (plural cretes)
- chalk (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
- guix (“piece of chalk”)
- “creta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “creta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “creta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “creta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
creta f (plural cretas)
- “creta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
creta f (plural crete)
- ^ creta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
creta f (plural cretes)
- credit (financial)
- confidence
Unknown; perhaps:
- From Crēta, thus “Cretan earth”.
- From (terra) crēta (“sifted (earth)”), substantivized from the feminine gender of crētus.
- From an archaic Proto-Indo-European noun *tkʷreh₁-it- (compare Old Irish crē, Welsh pridd, Tocharian A tukri and Tocharian B kwriye, all meaning “clay”)[1][2] plus the thematic feminine ending *-eh₂, but the root would be otherwise unknown.
- An early borrowing from Celtic, or from the same substrate source as the Celtic words.[3] More at Proto-Celtic *kʷrīyess.
crēta f (genitive crētae); first declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | crēta | crētae |
Genitive | crētae | crētārum |
Dative | crētae | crētīs |
Accusative | crētam | crētās |
Ablative | crētā | crētīs |
Vocative | crēta | crētae |
- Italian: creta
- Vulgar Latin: *crēda
- → Catalan: creta
- →⇒ English: creta preparata
- → Galician: creta
- → Proto-West Germanic: *krīdā, *krītā
- → Hungarian: kréta
- → Portuguese: creta
- → Romanian: cretă
- → Spanish: creta
- ^ 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’”
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
crēta
- inflection of crētus:
crētā
- “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.
creta f (uncountable)
- (geology) chalk (rock)
- Synonym: caliza de Creta
- (vulgar, Dominican Republic) the labia minora; the vaginal lips
- “creta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014