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English
Etymology 1
A feminine form of Peter, identical with Late Latin petra (“stone”); came into regular use in the 19th century.
Proper noun
Petra
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”).
Proper noun
Petra
- An ancient city and archaeological site in Jordan.
- An ancient Hellenistic city and former bishopric in Roman Egypt; in full, Petra in Aegypto.
- A medieval fortified town in Lazica, in the modern country of Georgia; modern Tsikhisdziri.
- An ancient lost town in Corinthia in modern Greece.
- An ancient lost town in Elis in modern Greece.
- A modern village and community in Aliartos municipality in Boeotia, Greece.
- A modern village and former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean administrative region, Greece.
- A modern former municipality of Pieria, Central Macedonia administrative region, Greece.
- A modern village in Preveza, Epirus administrative region, Greece.
- A former village and ghost town in Northern Cyprus, now uninhabited and largely destroyed.
- A modern village in Bâcleș Commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania.
- A modern town and municipality on the island of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, Spain.
- An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.
Translations
an ancient city and archaeological site in Jordan
Anagrams
- Peart, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Petra f
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
Declension of Petra (hard feminine reducible)
Further reading
- Petra in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- Petra in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Proper noun
Petra
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpeː.traː/
- Hyphenation: Pe‧tra
Proper noun
Petra f
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Faroese
Proper noun
Petra f
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Petra: Petruson
- daughter of Petra: Petrudóttir
Declension
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Indefinite
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Nominative
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Petra
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Accusative
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Petru
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Dative
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Petru
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Genitive
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Petru
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Petra or Swedish Petra in the 20th century. Sometimes associated with dialectal Finnish petra (“deer”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Petra
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
Statistics
- Petra is the 124th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,737 female individuals (and as a middle name to 851 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Petra f (genitive Petras or Petra)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, Petrus, equivalent to English Petra
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Petra
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Péter, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
Latin
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Petra f sg (genitive Petrae); first declension
- Petra (an ancient Nabatean city in Arabia Petraea, in modern Jordan)
- Petra, Petra in Aegypto (an ancient Hellenistic city and former bishopic in Roman Egypt)
- Petra (a medieval fortified town in Lazica, in the modern country of Georgia; modern Tsikhisdziri)
- Petra (an ancient lost town in Corinthia in modern Greece)
- Petra (an ancient lost town in Elis in modern Greece)
- a post-classical female given name, masculine equivalent Petrus
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Petra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Petra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian
Proper noun
Petra
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Petra f (genitive singular Petry, nominative plural Petry, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Petra”, 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, 2024
Swedish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Petra c (genitive Petras)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Anagrams