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Galician

Etymology

Back-formation from petar (“to knock”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t?]

Noun

peta f (plural petas)

1. pickaxe

   Synonym: picaraña

2. whim; will

   Synonym: gana

Related terms

• petar

References

• “peta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “peta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “peta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay peta, perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (bh?pa?a, “map”) as ?? (bh?, “earth”) +? ?? (pa?a, “garment”). Similar construction in Latin mappa mund? (“map”), compound of mappa (“napkin, cloth”) + mundus (“world”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ta/
• Hyphenation: pê?ta

Noun

pêta (plural peta-peta, first-person possessive petaku, second-person possessive petamu, third-person possessive petanya)

1. map

Derived terms

See also

• kartu

Further reading

• “peta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

Possibly from Sanskrit ???? (bh?pa?a, “map”) as ?? (bh?, “earth”) +? ?? (pa?a, “garment”). Similar construction in Latin mappa mund? (“map”), compound of mappa (“napkin, cloth”) + mundus (“world”).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /p?t?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /p?ta/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -t?, -?

Noun

peta (Jawi spelling ????, plural peta-peta, informal 1st possessive petaku, impolite 2nd possessive petamu, 3rd possessive petanya)

1. map

Derived terms

Descendants

• Indonesian: peta

Further reading

• "peta" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, ?ISBN, 2005.
• “peta” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• petta

Etymology

Either of Romance origin, cognate to French petit, or from a native word, *feta, *?etta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?et?/

Noun

peta m

1. pet (usually of a tame or domesticated animal)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• petacht

Descendants

• Irish: peata
• Scottish Gaelic: peata

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “pet(t)a”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (preta).

Noun

peta m

1. ghost

Declension

References

• “peta”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.ta/

Noun

peta m

1. genitive singular of pet

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) petta

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

peta f (plural petas)

1. (Sutsilvan) a cake in the shape of a loaf

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?ta. Cognate with Bulgarian ???? (peta), Slovene peta, Russian ???? (pjata), Slovak päta. Non-Slavic cognates include Pashto ?????? (p?nda?h, “heel”) and Old Prussian pentis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ta/
• Hyphenation: pe?ta

Noun

péta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. heel

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?ta. Cognate with Bulgarian ???? (peta), Serbo-Croatian ????/peta, Russian ???? (pjata), Slovak päta. Non-Slavic cognates include Pashto ?????? (p?nda?h, “heel”) and Old Prussian pentis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???ta/

Noun

péta f

1. heel

Inflection

Further reading

• “peta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Aymara or Quechua.

Noun

peta f (plural petas)

1. (Bolivia) turtle

   Synonym: tortuga

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

peta (present petar, preterite petade, supine petat, imperative peta)

1. (often with "på") to poke; prod or jab
2. (chiefly with "i") to poke; to promote burning

Conjugation

Related terms

• peta bort
• peta in
• peta sig i näsan
• peta ut
• petning

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pi?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pit?/, /?pi??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?(?)
• Homophone: pita (non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: pe?ter

Etymology 1

US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-. Compare the use of other men’s names as a slang term for the penis, e.g., dick, willy, John Thomas, etc.

Noun

peter (plural peters)

1. (slang) The penis.
   • 1997: Shelby Scates, Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America [2]

     You smile, act polite, shake their hands, then cut off their peters and put them in your pocket.” “Yes, Mr. President,” answered O'Brien.

   • 1998: Michael Robert Gorman, The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria [3]

     ... and you were there, and they acted like you weren't even born yet?' "I'd say, 'Yes, their memories are as long as their peters.'"

   • 2002: Celia H Miles, Mattie's Girl: An Appalachian Childhood [4]

     “It's to put on their peters when they don't want to make babies,” she said.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

peter (plural peters)

1. (Britain, slang) A safe.

   Synonym: pete

   • 1963, Kenneth Ullyett, Crime out of Hand (page 109)

     It used to be simple to 'crack a peter'. Safe-breaking (blowing or cracking a 'peter') in the past three or four years shows that the expert cracksman knows his job.

Derived terms

• peterman

Etymology 3

1812, US miners’ slang, Unknown. Various speculative etymologies have been suggested. One suggestion is that it comes from peter being an abbreviation of saltpeter, the key ingredient in gunpowder – when a mine was exhausted, it was “petered”. Other derivations are from St. Peter (from sense of “rock”), or French péter (“to fart”).

Verb

peter (third-person singular simple present peters, present participle petering, simple past and past participle petered)

1. (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.
   • 2021, Helen Fisher, Faye, Faraway (page 241)

     My words petered away.

Usage notes

Originally used independently, but today most often in the derived phrase peter out.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

peter (third-person singular simple present peters, present participle petering, simple past and past participle petered)

1. (card games, intransitive) Synonym of blue peter

References

Anagrams

• Peret, Petre, Prete, peert, petre, repet.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch peter, from petrijn, from Latin patr?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pe?ter
• Rhymes: -e?t?r

Noun

peter m (plural peters, feminine meter)

1. A godfather.

   Synonym: peetoom