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English
Etymology
From Latin petra (“rock”). Doublet of piedra.
Noun
petra
- 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.
Anagrams
- Peart, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Breton
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Pronoun
petra
- what?
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
petra (dialectal)
- Alternative form of peura
Declension
Gallurese
Etymology
Inherited from Classical Latin petra, borrowed from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra), of unknown further etymology.
Pronunciation
Noun
petra f (plural petri)
- stone
- (uncountable) a hard earthen substance that can form large rocks
- a piece of stone
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Gallurese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN
Interlingua
Noun
petra (plural petras)
- stone
Latin
Etymology
A late borrowing from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”), further etymology unknown.
Pronunciation
Noun
petra f (genitive petrae); first declension
- stone, rock
- Synonyms: lapis, saxum, silex
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
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
- “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
Sicilian
Etymology
From Latin petra.
Noun
petra f
- stone