cretam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cretus, creta, cretum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
born of; arisen/sprung/descended from;
acc. sg. (f.) - Entry →cerno, cernere, crevi, cretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sift, separate, distinguish, discern, resolve, determine; see; examine; decide;; come forth/to be; arise/spring (from); be born; become visible/great; grow (up);; thrive, increase (size/number/honor), multiply; ascend; attain, be promoted;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →creta, cretae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
clay/clayey soil; chalk; white/fuller's earth; paint/whitening; white goal line;; Crete, island of Crete;
acc. sg.
Examples
- T
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...capiam civitatem, cogito, potissimum: Megares, Eretriam, Corinthum, Chalcidem, Cretam, Cyprum, Sicyonem, Cnidum, Zacynthum, Lesbiam, Boeotiam. EVT. Cur istuc..." - C
Hannibal
Cornelius Nepos
"...quod sine dubio accidisset, si sui fecisset potestatem, Cretam ad Gortynios venit, ut ibi, quo se conferret, consideraret..." - T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...sentimus adhaesum corpore nec membris incussam sidere cretam, nec nebulam noctu neque arani tenvia fila obvia sentimus, quando..." - L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...eius interpellatione revocati. 'Hanc quam nunc in circo 'cretam' vocamus 'calcem' antiqui dicebant. Deinde Ennianos colligit versus..." - G
Divus Vespasianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...fratris appellat. Tribunatum militum in Thracia meruit; quaestor Cretam et Cyrenas provinciam sorte cepit; aedilitatis ac mox praeturae..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...artes. nam neque plebeiam aut dextro sine numine cretam servo animam. atque adeo breviter, dum tecta subimus, expediam..."- P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...terris. nauticus exoritur vario certamine clamor: hortantur socii Cretam proavosque petamus. prosequitur surgens a puppi ventus euntis..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...caris corpus Athenis proicere optavit potius quam talia Cretam funera Cecropiae nec funera portarentur. atque ita nave levi..."
