different between petra vs metra

English

Etymology

From Latin petra (“rock”). Doublet of piedra.

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

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe.t?a/

Alternative forms

• p'ra

Pronoun

petra

1. what?

Finnish

Noun

petra

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of peura

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

petra (plural petras)

1. stone

Latin

Etymology

A late borrowing from Ancient Greek ????? (pétra, “rock”), further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pe.tra/, [?p?t??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pe.tra/, [?p??t???]

Noun

petra f (genitive petrae); first declension

1. stone, rock

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• Petrus
• s?l petrae, s?l petræ (stone salt; that is, found as an incrustation)

Descendants

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?^[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 Latin petra.

Noun

petra f

1. stone

English

Etymology 1

Noun

metra (plural metrae)

1. (medicine) The uterus.

Etymology 2

Ancient Greek [Term?] (“measure”)

Noun

metra (plural metras)

1. (historical) A pocket instrument combining a thermometer, level, plummet, and lens.

Anagrams

• 'mater, METAR, Marte, armet, mater, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma

Faroese

Noun

metra

1. indefinite genitive plural of metur

   skipið liggur á túsund metra dýpi - the ship lies at 1000 metres depth

Latin

Noun

metra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of metrum

References

• metra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

metra n

1. indefinite plural of metrum
2. definite plural of metrum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

metra n

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of metrum
2. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of metrum

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me?tra

Noun

metra f (plural metras)

1. (Venezuela) marble (toy)