Petra
Appearance
See also: petra
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]A feminine form of Peter, identical with Late Latin petra (“stone”); came into regular use in the 19th century.
Proper noun
[edit]Petra
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]female given name
Etymology 2
[edit]From Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”).
Proper noun
[edit]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 of 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
[edit]an ancient city and archaeological site in Jordan
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Anagrams
[edit]- Peart, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra f
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Petra”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “Petra”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra f
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Faroese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra f
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Usage notes
[edit]Matronymics
- son of Petra: Petruson
- daughter of Petra: Petrudóttir
Declension
[edit]singular | |
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indefinite | |
nominative | Petra |
accusative | Petru |
dative | Petru |
genitive | Petru |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Petra or Swedish Petra in the 20th century. Sometimes associated with dialectal Finnish petra (“deer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Petra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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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 Petrain rare | |
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 | |
abessive | Petratta | Petroitta | |
instructive | — | Petroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- 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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra f (genitive Petras or Petra)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, Petrus, equivalent to English Petra
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Péter, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Petra | Petrák |
accusative | Petrát | Petrákat |
dative | Petrának | Petráknak |
instrumental | Petrával | Petrákkal |
causal-final | Petráért | Petrákért |
translative | Petrává | Petrákká |
terminative | Petráig | Petrákig |
essive-formal | Petraként | Petrákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Petrában | Petrákban |
superessive | Petrán | Petrákon |
adessive | Petránál | Petráknál |
illative | Petrába | Petrákba |
sublative | Petrára | Petrákra |
allative | Petrához | Petrákhoz |
elative | Petrából | Petrákból |
delative | Petráról | Petrákról |
ablative | Petrától | Petráktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Petráé | Petráké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Petráéi | Petrákéi |
Possessive forms of Petra | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Petrám | Petráim |
2nd person sing. | Petrád | Petráid |
3rd person sing. | Petrája | Petrái |
1st person plural | Petránk | Petráink |
2nd person plural | Petrátok | Petráitok |
3rd person plural | Petrájuk | Petráik |
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tra/, [ˈpɛt̪rä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tra/, [ˈpɛːt̪rä]
Proper noun
[edit]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
[edit]First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Petra |
genitive | Petrae |
dative | Petrae |
accusative | Petram |
ablative | Petrā |
vocative | Petra |
locative | Petrae |
References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Petra f (genitive singular Petry, nominative plural Petry, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra
Declension
[edit]Declension of Petra
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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, 2003–2024
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Petra c (genitive Petras)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, equivalent to English Petra
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English female given names from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- en:Ancient settlements
- en:Places in Jordan
- en:Historical polities
- en:Places in Georgia
- en:Places in Greece
- en:Villages in Greece
- en:Historical political subdivisions
- en:Historical settlements
- en:Ghost towns in Northern Cyprus
- en:Villages in Romania
- en:Places in Romania
- en:Towns in the Balearic Islands
- en:Towns in Spain
- en:Municipalities of Spain
- en:Places in the Balearic Islands
- en:Places in Spain
- en:Unincorporated communities in Kentucky, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Kentucky, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Ancient Near East
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Czech/ɛtra
- Rhymes:Czech/ɛtra/2 syllables
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech given names
- Czech female given names
- Czech female given names from Ancient Greek
- Czech hard feminine nouns
- Czech nouns with reducible stem
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish female given names
- Danish female given names from Ancient Greek
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Dutch lemmas
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- Dutch given names
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- Dutch female given names from Ancient Greek
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese feminine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese female given names
- Faroese female given names from Ancient Greek
- Finnish terms borrowed from German
- Finnish terms derived from German
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/etrɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/etrɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish female given names from Ancient Greek
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- German 2-syllable words
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- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German given names
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- German female given names from Ancient Greek
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/rɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/rɒ/2 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- Hungarian given names
- Hungarian female given names
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
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- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Ancient settlements
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- la:Places in Georgia
- la:Places in Greece
- Latin given names
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- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian female given names
- Norwegian female given names from Ancient Greek
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
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- Slovak female given names from Ancient Greek
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
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- Swedish female given names from Ancient Greek