Κρῆτας (Kretas)

Κρῆτας is an Ancient Greek form of Κρής, meaning “Cretan — a man from Crete”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Κρήτη, “Crete”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 121: ήτων ζάθεοί τε Κρήτας

Plutarch, Theseus 16.1: φιλόχορος δέ φησιν οὐ ταῦτα συγχωρεῖν Κρῆτας, ἀλλὰ λέγειν ὅτι φρουρὰ μὲν ἦν ὁ Λαβύρινθος, οὐδὲν ἔχων κακὸν ἀλλʼ ἢ τὸ μὴ διαφυγεῖν τοὺς φυλαττομένους, ἀγῶν …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 35: τί δήποτε ταῖς κόραις τῶν Βοττιαίων ἔθος ἦν λέγειν χορευούσαις ἴωμεν εἰς Ἀθήνας; Κρῆτάς φασιν εὐξαμένους ἀνθρώπων ἀπαρχὴν εἰς Δελφοὺς ἀποστεῖλαι, τοὺς δὲ πεμφθέντας, ὡς ἑώρων οὐδεμίαν οὖσαν εὐπορία …

All forms of Κρής (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.