creta

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.

• crētula

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

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.

creta f (uncountable)

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

• caliza de Creta