πέτρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. In the absence of an explanation, Beekes prefers a Pre-Greek borrowing.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.traː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpɛ.tra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tra/
Noun
πέτρᾱ • (pétrā) f (genitive πέτρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πέτρᾱ hē pétrā |
τὼ πέτρᾱ tṑ pétrā |
αἱ πέτραι hai pétrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πέτρᾱς tês pétrās |
τοῖν πέτραιν toîn pétrain |
τῶν πετρῶν tôn petrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πέτρᾳ têi pétrāi |
τοῖν πέτραιν toîn pétrain |
ταῖς πέτραις taîs pétrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πέτρᾱν tḕn pétrān |
τὼ πέτρᾱ tṑ pétrā |
τᾱ̀ς πέτρᾱς tā̀s pétrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πέτρᾱ pétrā |
πέτρᾱ pétrā |
πέτραι pétrai | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Related terms
- πέτρος (pétros)
Descendants
References
- ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “πέτρᾱ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1182
Further reading
- πέτρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέτρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πέτρα 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
- πέτρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4073 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Corycian cave idem, page 1007.
- boulder idem, page 90.
- cliff idem, page 137.
- rock idem, page 719.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).
Noun
πέτρα • (pétra) f (plural πέτρες)
- rock, stone (mass or fragments)
- (figuratively) rock (something hard and stable)
- (nautical) rock (rocky hazard)
Declension
declension of πέτρα
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | πέτρα • | πέτρες • |
| genitive | πέτρας • | πετρών • |
| accusative | πέτρα • | πέτρες • |
| vocative | πέτρα • | πέτρες • |
Synonyms
- (rock): λίθος m (líthos, “stone”)
Related terms
- πέτρωμα n (pétroma, “rock”)
- πέτρινος (pétrinos, “rock”)
- οποία πέτρα κι αν σηκώσεις, τον βρίσκεις από κάτω (opoía pétra ki an sikóseis, ton vrískeis apó káto, “of people who are ubiquitous”) (literally: "whichever stone you pick up, you find him underneath")
Further reading
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