Κρήτη

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Ancient GreekEdit

Wikipedia

EtymologyEdit

From Κρυς ‎(Krus), mythological hero, probably an indigenous ethnic Pre-Greek name.

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA: /krɛ᷄ː.tɛː/ → /ˈkri.ti/ → /ˈkri.ti/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /krɛ᷄ː.tɛː/
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /ˈkre.te/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /ˈkri.ti/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /ˈkri.ti/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /ˈkri.ti/

Proper nounEdit

Κρήτη • ‎(Krḗtē) f ‎(genitive Κρήτης); first declension

1. Crete.

InflectionEdit

First declension of Κρήτη, Κρήτης

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κρήτη
Genitive	τῆς Κρήτης
Dative	τῇ Κρήτῃ
Accusative	τὴν Κρήτην
Vocative	Κρήτη

Derived termsEdit

Κρής ‎(Krḗs) Κρήσιος ‎(Krḗsios) Κρῆσσα ‎(Krêssa) κρησφύγετον ‎(krēsphúgeton)

κρησφύγιον ‎(krēsphúgion) Κρηταεύς ‎(Krētaeús) Κρηταιίς ‎(Krētaiís) Κρηταιεύς ‎(Krētaieús)

Κρηταῖος ‎(Krētaîos) Κρητάρχης ‎(Krētárkhēs) Κρήτηθε ‎(Krḗtēthe) Κρήτηθεν ‎(Krḗtēthen)

Κρητίζω ‎(Krētízō) Κρήτηνδε ‎(Krḗtēnde) Κρητικός ‎(Krētikós) Κρητογενής ‎(Krētogenḗs)

DescendantsEdit

• Arabic: كريت
• Basque: Kreta
• Bulgarian: Крит ‎(Krit)
• Catalan: Creta
• English: Crete
• French: Crète
• German: Kreta
• Greek: Κρήτη ‎(Kríti)
• Hebrew: כרתים ‎(Kretim)
• Italian: Creta
• Kurdish: Kreta
• Latin: Creta

• Macedonian: Крит ‎(Krit)
• Old Armenian: Կրետէ ‎(Kretē) (Kretē)
  • Armenian: Կրետե ‎(Krete) (Krete)
• Persian: کرت
• Portuguese: Creta
• Romanian: Creta
• Russian: Крит ‎(Krit)
• Serbo-Croatian: Крит, Krit
• Sicilian: Creta
• Spanish: Creta
• Turkish: Girit
• Ukrainian: Крит ‎(Kryt)

ReferencesEdit

• Κρήτη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Κρήτη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Κρήτη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2914”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007

• LSJ
• NA27

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GreekEdit

Proper nounEdit

Κρήτη • ‎(Kríti) f

1. Crete (island)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of Κρήτη ‎(Kríti)

	singular
nominative	Κρήτη
genitive	Κρήτης
accusative	Κρήτη
vocative	Κρήτη

External linksEdit

• Κρήτη on the Greek Wikipedia.el.Wikipedia