Peter

From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Pedro, Piers, and Boutros.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpitɚ/, [ˈpʰitɚ], [ˈpʰiɾɚ]

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• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
• Homophones: PETA, pita (Received Pronunciation), peter, ptr

Peter

1. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.

   Synonym: Papa

Peter (countable and uncountable, plural Peters)

Epistle of Peter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Peter on Wikisource.Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1911, J. M. Barrie, chapter I, in Peter Pan, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, published 1993:

     She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.

   • 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Boys' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 90:

     What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,

   • 2021 August 24, Devan Cole, Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann, “Two congressmen traveled to Afghanistan amid frantic evacuation efforts”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Reps. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, said in a joint statement Tuesday that they had traveled to Kabul “to conduct oversight on the mission to evacuate Americans and our allies” and that the trip had been conducted in secret “to minimize the risk and disruption to the people on the ground.”

4. The leading Apostle in the New Testament: Saint Peter.
5. (biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Pet.

6. A surname originating as a patronymic.
7. A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah, United States, named after Peter Maughan.

   Synonym: Petersboro

• given name variants: Peers, Percy, Pete, Petey, Pierce, Piers
• feminine forms: Peta, Petra

• Petrock
• Petronella

• Peret, Petre, Prete, peert, petre, repet.

From English Peter, from Middle English Petre, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).

Peter

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Later reinforced by the German Peter.

• (stressed) IPA^(key): /ˈpeːˀtər/, [ˈpʰeːˀd̥ɐ]
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /petər/, [pʰed̥ɐ]

Peter

1. a male given name
2. Peter (biblical figure).

   Og jeg siger dig, at du er Peter, og på den klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke, --- Bibelen, Matthæus 16:18 (1992 transl.)

• (variants) Peder, Per
• (feminine forms) Pernille, Petra, Petrea, Petrine
• (surnames) Pedersen, Petersen

• [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 150 294 males with the given name Peter have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

From Middle Dutch Peter, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”), as a name a loan translation of Aramaic כֵּיפָא (“stone, rock; Peter, Cephas”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.tər/

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• Hyphenation: Pe‧ter
• Rhymes: -eːtər

Peter m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter

• Petrus
• Piet, Pieter

• repte

Borrowed from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeːtɐ/

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Peter m (proper noun, strong, genitive Peters or Peter, plural Peters or Peter)

1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Petra

   Alle Kinder stehen an der Klippe, außer Peter, der geht noch einen Meter.

   All the children are standing at the cliff, except Peter, who walks another meter.

• (biblical form): Petrus

Peter m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Peters, plural Peters or Peter)

1. A common surname.

• The unchanged plural is preferred in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
• In northern and central Germany, both forms are common for the given name, but the surname usually takes -s in the plural.

• Peters (singular)

Borrowed from English Peter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ter/^[1]
• Rhymes: -iter

Peter m or f by sense

1. a male given name in English
2. (uncommon) a surname in English

Borrowed from German Peter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ter/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛter
• Hyphenation: Pè‧ter

Peter m or f by sense

1. a male given name and surname in German

• petir, Petir, petur, petre, peiter

From Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeːtər/

Peter (genitive Petres)

1. Peter
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 36-37; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

     Stille þou be peter. Wel i þe icnowe. / þou wolt fur ſake me þrien . ar þe coc him crowe.

     "Quiet now, Peter. I know you well; / You'll forsake me three times when the cock crows."

• Petres peny

• English: Peter
• Scots: Peter
• Yola: Beedher, Peedher, Peether

• “Pẹ̄ter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Later reinforced by the German Peter.

Peter

1. a male given name
2. Peter (biblical figure)

   Og det sier jeg deg: Du er Peter; på denne klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke. Bibelen, Matteus 16:18 (1985 transl.)

• (male given names) Peder, Peer, Per, Petter
• (feminine names) Pernille, Petra, Petrine
• (surnames) Pedersen, Petersen, Pettersen

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 4 327 males with the given name Peter (compared to 10 139 named Petter) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitər/

Peter

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter

• (diminutive) Pate, Patie

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtɛr/

Peter m pers (genitive singular Petra, nominative plural Petrovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter

• “Peter”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /pèːtər/

Pẹ́tər m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nominative	Péter
genitive	Pétra
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Péter
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Pétra
dative (dajȃlnik)	Pétru
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Pétra
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Pétru
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Pétrom

From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Later reinforced by the German Peter.

• IPA^(key): /petər/ (without doubled "t")
• IPA^(key): /pɛtər/ (with doubled "t": Petter)

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Peter

1. The letter "P" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Peter c (genitive Peters)

1. a male given name

variants:

• Peder
• Per
• Percy
• Petrus
• Pierre
• Pär

feminine forms:

• Pernilla
• Petra
• Petronella

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN:112 253 males with the given name Peter living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on May 19th, 2011.

• repet