petra

See also: Petra

English

Etymology

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

Noun

petra

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

Anagrams

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

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tʁa/

Alternative forms

• p'ra

Pronoun

petra

1. what?

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Finnish

Noun

petra

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of peura

Declension

Inflection of petra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		petra	petrat
genitive		petran	petrojen
partitive		petraa	petroja
illative		petraan	petroihin
		singular	plural
nominative		petra	petrat
accusative	nom.	petra	petrat
	gen.	petran
genitive		petran	petrojen petrainrare
partitive		petraa	petroja
inessive		petrassa	petroissa
elative		petrasta	petroista
illative		petraan	petroihin
adessive		petralla	petroilla
ablative		petralta	petroilta
allative		petralle	petroille
essive		petrana	petroina
translative		petraksi	petroiksi
instructive		—	petroin
abessive		petratta	petroitta
comitative		—	petroineen

Possessive forms of petra (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	petrani	petramme
2nd person	petrasi	petranne
3rd person	petransa

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Interlingua

Noun

petra (plural petras)

1. stone

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tra/, [ˈpɛt̪rä] or IPA^(key): /ˈpet.ra/, [ˈpɛt̪rä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tra/, [ˈpɛːt̪rä]

Noun

petra f (genitive petrae); first declension

1. stone, rock

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	petra	petrae
Genitive	petrae	petrārum
Dative	petrae	petrīs
Accusative	petram	petrās
Ablative	petrā	petrīs
Vocative	petra	petrae

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cheatrã
  • Romanian: piatră
• Dalmato-Romance:
  • Dalmatian: pitra
  • Istriot: pera
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: petra
  • Italian: pietra
  • Sicilian: petra
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: piere
  • Ligurian: pria
  • Lombard: preja, preda
  • Piedmontese: preja, pera, pria
  • Venetian: piera
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • French: pierre
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pedra
  • Occitan: pèira, peira
• Ibero-romance:
  • Asturian: piedra
  • Galician: pedra
  • Portuguese: pedra
    • → Guinea-Bissau Creole: pedra
  • Spanish: piedra
    • → Kabuverdianu: piedra
    • → Papiamentu: piedra
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: pedra
• Borrowings:
  • → English: petra
  • → Interlingua: petra

References

• 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

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Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin petra.

Noun

petra f

1. stone