The empire still included the islands of Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, Malta, and Sicily.
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Crete
//ˈkɹiːt//
Synonyms for "crete" (1 found)
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2 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
81 translations across 66 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- Kreta name (island)
- Kretë name (island)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Κρήτη name (island)
Arabic
4 entries- إِقْرِيطْش name (island)
- كريت name (island)
- كريت name (island)
- كِرِيت name (island)
Armenian
1 entries- Կրետե name (island)
Aromanian
2 entries- Creta name (island)
- Crete name (island)
Basque
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Belarusian
1 entries- Крыт name (island)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Крит name (island)
Catalan
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Cherokee
3 entries- ᏝᏞᏖ name (island)
- ᏟᏗ name (island)
- ᏟᏗᏱ name (island)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 克里特島 name (island)
- 革哩底 name (island)
Corsican
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Czech
1 entries- Kréta name (island)
Danish
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Dutch
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Egyptian
1 entries- k:f-G4-N25 name (island)
Esperanto
1 entries- Kreto name (island)
Estonian
1 entries- Kreeta name (island)
Farefare
1 entries- Kereta name (island)
Finnish
1 entries- Kreeta name (island)
French
1 entries- Crète name (island)
Friulian
1 entries- Crete name (island)
Galician
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Georgian
1 entries- კრეტა name (island)
German
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Greek
1 entries- Κρήτη name (island)
Hebrew
2 entries- כְּרֵתִים name (island)
- כַּפְתּוֹר name (island)
Hindi
1 entries- क्रीट name (island)
Hungarian
1 entries- Kréta name (island)
Icelandic
1 entries- Krít name (island)
Irish
1 entries- an Chréit name (island)
Italian
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Japanese
1 entries- クレタ島 name (island)
Kazakh
1 entries- Крит name (island)
Korean
1 entries- 크레타 name (island)
Lao
2 entries- ກະເຣເຕ name (island)
- ກະແລັດ name (island)
Latin
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Latvian
1 entries- Krēta name (island)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Macedonian
1 entries- Крит name (island)
Maltese
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Norman
1 entries- Crête name (island)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᨣᩕᩦ᩠ᨲ name (island)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Old Armenian
1 entries- Կրետէ name (island)
Old Norse
1 entries- Krít name (island)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كرید name (island)
Persian
2 entries- اقریطس name (island)
- کرت name (island)
Polish
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Portuguese
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Romanian
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Russian
1 entries- Крит name (island)
Sardinian
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Scots
1 entries- Crete name (island)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- Kreta name (island)
- Krit name (island)
- Крета name (island)
- Крит name (island)
Shan
1 entries- ၵရေႇတေႇ name (island)
Sicilian
2 entries- Creta name (island)
- Crita name (island)
Slovak
1 entries- Kréta name (island)
Slovene
1 entries- Kréta name (island)
Spanish
1 entries- Creta name (island)
Swedish
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Thai
1 entries- ครีต name (island)
Turkish
1 entries- Girit name (island)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Крит name (island)
West-Frisian
1 entries- Kreta name (island)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
"Jove's island lies, amid the deep enshrined, / Crete, hundred-towned, a land of corn and wine, / where Ida's mountain stands, the cradle of our line."
Source: tatoeba (6978013)
"Come then and seek we, as the gods command, / the Gnosian kingdoms, and the winds entreat. / Short is the way, nor distant lies the land. / If Jove be present and assist our fleet, / the third day lands us on the shores of Crete."
Source: tatoeba (6980140)
Loud rise the shouts of sailors to the sky; / "Crete and our fathers", rings for all to hear / the cry of oarsmen.
Source: tatoeba (6991741)
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