Πέτρος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.tros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tros/
Proper noun
Πέτρος • (Pétros) m (genitive Πέτρου); second declension
Inflection
Descendants
- Greek: Πέτρος (Pétros)
- → Aghwan: 𐕗𐔴𐕜𐕙𐕒𐕚 (ṗeṭros)
- → Albanian: Pjetër
- → Arabic: بُطْرُس (buṭrus)
- → Old Armenian: Պետրոս (Petros)
- → Belarusian: Пётра (Pjótra), Пятро́ (Pjatró)
- → Bulgarian: Петър (Petǎr)
- → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃 (paitrus)
- → Hebrew: פטרוס (Peṭrōs)
- → Korean: 베드로 (bedeuro)
- → Macedonian: Петар (Petar), Петре (Petre)
- → Persian: پطرس (petros)
- → Russian: Пётр (Pjotr)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Петар, Petar
- → Ukrainian: Петро (Petro)
- → Latin: Petrus
- Asturian: Pedru
- Catalan: Pere
- Corsican: Petru
- French: Pierre, Piers
- → Breton: Pêr
- Galician: Pedro
- Italian: Pietro, Piero
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Pedro
- Portuguese: Pedro
- Romanian: Petru
- Sicilian: Petru, Pieri
- Spanish: Pedro
- Venetian: Piero
- → Basque: Peio, Peru
- → Cornish: Peder
- → Dutch: Peter, Pieter, Petrus
- → Old English: Petrus
- → German: Peter, Petrus
- → Old Irish: Petur
- → Japanese: ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero)
- → Latvian: Pēteris
- → Lithuanian: Petras
- → Maltese: Pietru
- → Old Norse: Pétr
- → Swedish: Per, Petrus
- → Turkish: Petrus
- → Welsh: Pedr
See also
References
- Πέτρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4074 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Πέτρος • (Pétros) m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
- (Christianity) Any of the religious figures named Peter in the Bible, in particular the apostle of Jesus.
- Any of the saints whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 29 June.
Declension
Πέτρος
Related terms
- (diminutive form) Πετράκης (Petrákis)