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Κρήτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κρήτη

Structure: Κρητ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Crete, Candia

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἔσται Κρήτη νομὴ ποιμνίων καὶ μάνδρα προβάτων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Sophoniae 2:6)
  • ἐν Κρήτῃ μὲν οὐ μόνον τοῦτο ἀκοῦσαι ἔστιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄλλο τι περὶ σοῦ λέγουσιν καὶ τάφον ἐπιδεικνύουσιν· (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 6:10)
  • ἀπὸ μὲν γὰρ τῶν ἑῴων μόγισ Ιὠνία καὶ Λυδία φαίνεται, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ ἑσπέρασ οὐ πλέον Ἰταλίασ καὶ Σικελίασ, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν ἀρκτῴων τὰ ἐπὶ τάδε τοῦ Ἴστρου μόνον, κἀκεῖθεν ἡ Κρήτη οὐ πάνυ σαφῶσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 5:2)
  • πρῶτον δέ φασιν Ῥέαν ἡσθεῖσαν τῇ τέχνῃ ἐν Φρυγίᾳ μὲν τοὺσ Κορύβαντασ, ἐν Κρήτῃ δὲ τοὺσ Κουρῆτασ ὀρχεῖσθαι κελεῦσαι, καὶ οὐ τὰ μέτρια ὤνατο τῆσ τέχνησ αὐτῶν, οἵ γε περιορχούμενοι διεσώσαντο αὐτῇ τὸν Δία, ὥστε καὶ σῶστρα εἰκότωσ ἂν ὁ Ζεὺσ ὀφείλειν ὁμολογοίη αὐτοῖσ, ἐκφυγὼν διὰ τὴν ἐκείνων ὄρχησιν τοὺσ πατρῴουσ ὀδόντασ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 8:1)
  • τὸν μέν οἱ ἐδέξατο Γαῖα πελώρη Κρήτῃ ἐν εὐρείῃ τραφέμεν ἀτιταλλέμεναί τε. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 44:9)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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