The corpus record — Latin

Creta1

fine clay

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Pro L. Flacco 3 · 2.75/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 3 · 2.58/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Ad Nationes 3 · 2.01/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. creta — de Vaan

fine clay

2. Crēta — Lewis & Short

Crete, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, distinguished in ancient times by its fruitfulness and very early cultivation

3. crēta — Lewis & Short

Cretan earth

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 158; entry #351 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 174; entry #2667 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.