creta
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin creta. Doublet of greda.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]creta f (plural cretes)
- chalk (a soft, white, powdery limestone)
See also
[edit]- guix (“piece of chalk”)
Further reading
[edit]- “creta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “creta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “creta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “creta”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]creta f (plural cretas)
Further reading
[edit]- “creta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]creta f (plural crete)
References
[edit]- ^ creta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
[edit]Ladin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]creta f (plural cretes)
- credit (financial)
- confidence
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unknown, perhaps:
- From Crēta, thus “Cretan earth”.
- From (terra) crēta (“sifted (earth)”), substantivized from the feminine gender of crētus. De Vaan considers this phonetically sound but semantically weak (clay is not a sifted type of dirt).[1]
- 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”)[2][3] 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; more at Proto-Celtic *kʷrīyess. This theory is preferred by De Vaan.[1]
Noun
[edit]crēta f (genitive crētae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | crēta | crētae |
| genitive | crētae | crētārum |
| dative | crētae | crētīs |
| accusative | crētam | crētās |
| ablative | crētā | crētīs |
| vocative | crēta | crētae |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Borrowings:
Through Vulgar Latin *crēda:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → Proto-West Germanic: *krīdā
References
[edit]- ↑ 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
- ^ 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
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
[edit]crēta
- inflection of crētus:
Participle
[edit]crētā
References
[edit]- “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
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin crēta. Compare greda.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]creta f (uncountable)
- (geology) chalk (rock)
- Synonym: caliza de Creta
- (vulgar, Dominican Republic) the labia minora; the vaginal lips
- Synonym: labias menores
Further reading
[edit]- “creta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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