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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

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