Cressa

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κρῆσσα (Krêssa). === Proper noun === Crēssa f sg (genitive Crēssae); first declension A city of Paphlagonia founded by Meriones after the war of Troy a port town in Caria, mentioned by Pliny ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Cressa === Noun === Crēssa f sg (genitive Crēssae, masculine Crēs); first declension a female Cretan; a Cretan woman ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === Adjective === Crēssa f (of a woman or a grammatically feminine thing) Cretan ==== Declension ==== Like the noun. === References === “Crēta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Cressa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Cressa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly