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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

Etymology

From translingual Tetragonopterus, an obsolete genus that included these fish.

Noun

tetra (plural tetras)

1. Any of numerous species of small South American freshwater fish of the family Characidae, popular in home aquariums.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Ratte, Treat, atter, ratte, tater, teart, treat

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tetr?/, [?t?e?t?r?]
• Rhymes: -etr?
• Syllabification: tet?ra

Etymology 1

< trade name Tetra Pak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tetr?/, [?t?e?t?r?]
• Rhymes: -etr?
• Syllabification: tet?ra

Noun

tetra

1. Tetra Pak (type of container)

Declension

Synonyms

• tetrapakkaus

Usage notes

• Often used as headword in a compound term, with a modifier that specifies the content, e.g. mehutetra (“Tetra Pak of juice”).

Etymology 2

From English tetra, from translingual Tetragonopterus.

Noun

tetra

1. tetra (fish of the family Characidae, commonly kept as aquarium fish)

Declension

Anagrams

• terat

Italian

Adjective

tetra

1. feminine singular of tetro

Noun

tetra m (invariable)

1. tetra

Anagrams

• retta

Latin

Adjective

t?tra

1. nominative feminine singular of t?ter
2. nominative neuter plural of t?ter
3. accusative neuter plural of t?ter
4. vocative feminine singular of t?ter
5. vocative neuter plural of t?ter

Adjective

t?tr?

1. ablative feminine singular of t?ter

References

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