petra
See also: Petra
English
Etymology
Noun
petra
- stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 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.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209:
Anagrams
- Peart, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Breton
Pronunciation
Pronoun
petra
- what?
Finnish
Noun
petra
Declension
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 petrainrare | ||
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. |
Interlingua
Noun
petra (plural petras)
Latin
Etymology
A late borrowing from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”), further etymology unknown.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tra/, [ˈpɛt̪rä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tra/, [ˈpɛːt̪rä]
Noun
petra f (genitive petrae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | petra | petrae |
Genitive | petrae | petrārum |
Dative | petrae | petrīs |
Accusative | petram | petrās |
Ablative | petrā | petrīs |
Vocative | petra | petrae |
Derived terms
- Petrus
- sāl petrae, sāl petræ (stone salt; that is, found as an incrustation)
Descendants
- Aromanian: cheatrã
- Asturian: piedra
- Catalan: pedra
- Corsican: petra
- Dalmatian: pitra
- English: petra
- French: pierre
- Friulian: piere
- Galician: pedra
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: pedra
- Istriot: pera
- Italian: pietra
- Kabuverdianu: piedra
- Occitan: pèira
- Papiamentu: piedra
- Portuguese: pedra
- Romanian: piatră
- Sardinian: pedra
- Sicilian: petra
- Spanish: piedra
- Venetian: piera
- Walloon: pire
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[1]
- “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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin petra.
Noun
petra f
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