creta

From Latin creta. Doublet of greda.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾə.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾe.ta/

creta f (plural cretes)

1. 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, 2023
• “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.

From Latin creta.

creta f (plural cretas)

1. chalk

• “creta” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From Latin creta.

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

creta f (plural crete)

1. chalk
2. clay

• -crate, carte, certa, cetra, tacer, trace

• crëta

creta f (plural cretes)

1. credit (financial)
2. 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

1. chalk
2. clay, clayey soil

First-declension noun.

• crētātus
• crētōsus
• crētula

• Italian: creta
• Vulgar Latin: *crēda
  • Franco-Provençal: creia, greia
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Lombard: creia
    • Piedmontese: creja
  • Occitano-Romance
    • Catalan: greda
    • Occitan: greda
  • Oïl
    • French: craie
      • → Portuguese: cré
      • ⇒ French: crayon (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: craie
  • Venetian: crèa
    • → Cimbrian: khrèa
  • West Iberian
    • Portuguese: greda
    • Spanish: greda
  • → Old High German: krīda
    • Middle High German: krīde
      • Cimbrian: khraida
      • German: Kreide
      • Luxembourgish: Kräid
      • Vilamovian: krajd
      • Yiddish: קרײַד‎ (krayd)
      • → Bulgarian: креда (kreda)
      • → Czech: křída
      • → Macedonian: креда (kreda)
      • → Lower Sorbian: krida
      • → Old Ruthenian: крейда (see there for further descendants)
      • → Polish: kreda
      • → Serbo-Croatian: креда / kreda
      • → Slovene: kreda

Borrowings

• Catalan: creta
• Galician: creta
• Hungarian: kréta
• Portuguese: creta
• Middle Dutch: crijt
  • Dutch: krijt (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Low German: krite
  • Plautdietsch: Kjried
  • → Danish: kridt
  • → Estonian: kriit
  • → Faroese: krit
  • → Icelandic: krít
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: kritt
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: krit
  • → Swedish: krita
• Romanian: cretă
• Spanish: creta
• ⇒ English: creta preparata

crēta

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

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]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: cre‧ta

creta f (uncountable)

1. (geology) chalk (rock)

   Synonym: caliza de Creta

2. (Dominican Republic) the labia minora; the vaginal lips

• “creta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014