Borrowed fromLatincreta.Doublet ofgreda.

• IPA^(key): (Central)[ˈkɾɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)[ˈkɾə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)[ˈkɾe.ta]

creta f (pluralcretes)

1. chalk(a soft, white, powdery limestone)

• guix(“piece of chalk”)

• “creta”, inDiccionari 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”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2026
• “creta” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “creta” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed fromLatincreta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾeta/[ˈkɾe.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes:-eta
• Hyphenation:cre‧ta

creta f (pluralcretas)

1. chalk

• “creta”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Inherited fromLatincreta.

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

creta f (pluralcrete)

1. chalk
2. clay

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

• crëta

creta f (pluralcretes)

1. credit (financial)
2. confidence

Unknown, perhaps:

• FromCrēta, thus “Cretan earth”.
• From (terra)crēta(“sifted (earth)”), substantivized from the feminine gender ofcrētus. De Vaan considers this phonetically sound but semantically weak (clay is not a sifted type of dirt).^[1]
• From an archaicProto-Indo-European noun*tkʷreh₁-it- (compareOld Irishcrē,Welshpridd,Tocharian Atukri andTocharian Bkwriye, all meaning “clay”)^[2][3] plus the thematic feminine ending*-eh₂, but the root would be otherwise unknown.
• An early borrowing fromCeltic, or from the samesubstrate source as the Celtic words; more atProto-Celtic*kʷrīyess. This theory is preferred by De Vaan.^[1]

crēta f (genitivecrētae);first declension

1. chalk
2. clay,clayeysoil

First-declension noun.

• crētātus
• crētōsus
• crētula

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

crēta

1. inflection ofcrētus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

crētā

1. ablativefemininesingular ofcrētus

• “creta”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creta”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “creta”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “creta”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “creta”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Borrowed fromLatincrēta. Comparegreda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾeta/[ˈkɾe.t̪a]
• Rhymes:-eta
• Syllabification:cre‧ta

creta f (uncountable)

1. (geology)chalk(rock)

   Synonym:caliza de Creta

2. (vulgar, Dominican Republic) thelabia minora; thevaginallips

   Synonym:labias menores

• “creta”, inDiccionario 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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