petro

See also: Petro and petro-

English

Noun

petro (plural petros)

1. A Venezuelan cryptocurrency launched in 2018, supposed to be backed by the country's oil and mineral reserves. Symbol: ₽.

Anagrams

• -trope, ptero-, Porte, Perot, trope, retop, repot, tepor, toper, opter

Ido

Noun

petro (plural petri)

1. stone

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekder.?

Ancient Greek πέτρᾱ (pétrā)bor.

Latin petra

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō

Latin petrō

From petra (“stone”) + -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.tro]

Noun

petrō m (genitive petrōnis); third declension

1. a rustic, a country bumpkin, yokel, hayseed, hick

   Synonym: rūsticus

2. an old wether (a ram whose flesh is as hard as stone)

   Hypernym: vervēx

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	petrō	petrōnēs
genitive	petrōnis	petrōnum
dative	petrōnī	petrōnibus
accusative	petrōnem	petrōnēs
ablative	petrōne	petrōnibus
vocative	petrō	petrōnēs

References

• “pē̆tro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “petro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetɾo/ [ˈpe.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -etɾo
• Syllabification: pe‧tro

Noun

petro m (plural petros)

1. petro