petra

From Latin petra (“rock”). Doublet of piedra.

petra

1. stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 209:

     Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.

• Peart, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

• p'ra

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tʁa/

petra

1. what?

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetrɑ/, [ˈpe̞t̪rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -etrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pet‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): pet‧ra

petra (dialectal)

1. alternative form of peura

Inherited from Classical Latin petra, borrowed from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra), of unknown further etymology.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetra/^[1]
• IPA^(key): (La Maddalena) /ˈpɛtra/^[1]

petra f (plural petri)

1. stone
   1. (uncountable) a hard earthen substance that can form large rocks
   2. a piece of stone

petra (plural petras)

1. stone

From Proto-Finnic *pëtra. Cognates include Finnish peura and Veps pedr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetrɑ/
• Hyphenation: pet‧ra

petra (genitive petran, partitive petrua)

1. (North Karelian) reindeer

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “petra”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

A late borrowing from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”), further etymology unknown.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.tra], [ˈpɛt.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.t̪ra]

petra f (genitive petrae); first declension

1. stone, rock

   Synonyms: lapis, saxum, silex

First-declension noun.

• petrificātiō
• petrificō
• Petrus
• sāl petrae, sāl petræ (stone salt; that is, found as an incrustation)

• “petra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “petra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "petra", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• petra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “petra”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “petra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “petra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “petra”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.tra/

petra f

1. (Far Masovian) wooden ladle (large wooden spoon for placing food in a bowl)

• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “petra”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 118

From Latin petra.

petra f

1. stone

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetɾa/ [ˈpe.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -etɾa
• Syllabification: pe‧tra

petra f (plural petras)

1. Myrceugenia exsucca, a tree of Chile and Argentina.

• “petra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024