creta.
clay/clayey soil; chalk; white/fuller's earth; paint/whitening; white goal line;
Meaning & usage
chalk
clay, clayey soil
Where this word comes from
Uncertain, perhaps: * From Crēta, thus “Cretan earth”. * From (terra) crēta (“sifted (earth)”), substantivized from the feminine gender of crētus. De Vaan considers this phonetically sound but semantically weak (clay is not a sifted type of dirt). * From an archaic Proto-Indo-European noun *tkʷreh₁-it- (compare Old Irish crē, Welsh pridd, Tocharian A tukri and Tocharian B kwriye, all meaning “clay”) plus the thematic feminine ending *-eh₂, but the root would be otherwise unknown. * An early borrowing from Celtic, or from the same substrate source as the Celtic words; more at Proto-Celtic *kʷrīyess. This theory is preferred by De Vaan.
inflection of crētus: nominative/vocative feminine singular
inflection of crētus: nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Where this word comes from
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ablative feminine singular of crētus
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