Πέτρος

See also: πέτρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.tros/ → /ˈpe.tros/ → /ˈpe.tros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.tros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/

Proper noun

Πέτρος • (Pétros) m (genitive Πέτρου); second declension

1. Peter

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πέτρος; τοῦ Πέτρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πέτρος ho Pétros
Genitive	τοῦ Πέτρου toû Pétrou
Dative	τῷ Πέτρῳ tôi Pétrōi
Accusative	τὸν Πέτρον tòn Pétron
Vocative	Πέτρε Pétre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Albanian: Pjetër
• Arabic: بُطْرُس (buṭrus)
• Armenian: Պետրոս (Petros)
• Asturian: Pedru
• Basque: Peio, Peru
• Belarusian: Пётра (Pjótra), Пятро́ (Pjatró)
• Breton: Pêr
• Bulgarian: Петър (Petǎr)
• Catalan: Pere
• Cornish: Peder
• Czech: Petr
• Danish: Peter
• Dutch: Peter, Pieter, Petrus
• English: Peter
• Estonian: Peeter, Peetrus
• Finnish: Pietari, Petri, Petteri
• French: Pierre, Piers
• Galician: Pedro
• German: Peter, Petrus
• Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃 (paitrus)
• Greek: Πέτρος (Pétros)
• Hebrew: פטרוס (Peṭrōs)
• Hungarian: Péter
• Icelandic: Pétur
• Irish: Peadar
• Italian: Pietro, Piero
• Japanese: ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero)
• Latin: Petrus
• Latvian: Pēteris
• Lithuanian: Petras
• Macedonian: Петар (Petar)
• Maltese: Pietru
• Norwegian: Peter
• Persian: پطرس (Petros)
• Polish: Piotr
• Portuguese: Pedro
• Romanian: Petru
• Russian: Пётр (Pjotr)
• Serbo-Croatian: Петар, Petar
• Sicilian: Petru
• Slovak: Peter
• Slovene: Peter
• Spanish: Pedro
• Swedish: Per, Peter, Petrus
• Tagalog: Pedro
• Turkish: Petrus
• Ukrainian: Петро (Petro)
• Venetian: Piero
• Welsh: Pedr

See also

• Κηφᾶς (Kēphâs)
• Σίμων (Símōn)

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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetɾos/
• Hyphenation: Πέ‧τρος

Proper noun

Πέτρος • (Pétros) m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter.
2. (Christianity) Any of the religious figures named Peter in the Bible, in particular the apostle of Jesus.
3. Any of the saints whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 29 June.

Declension

  Πέτρος

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Πέτρος •
genitive	Πέτρου •
accusative	Πέτρο •
vocative	Πέτρο •

Related terms

• (diminutive form) Πετράκης (Petrákis)