petra

Etymology

Latin petra (“stone”)

Noun

petra

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Peart, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tʁa/

Pronoun

petra

1. what?

Noun

petra

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of peura

Noun

petra (plural petras)

1. stone

Etymology

A late borrowing from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tra/, [ˈpɛ.tra]

Noun

petra f (genitive petrae); first declension

1. stone, rock

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, 1883–1887)
• petra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• petra in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• 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

Etymology

From Latin petra.

Noun

petra f

1. stone