Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Πέτρος • ‎(Pétros) m ‎(genitive Πέτρου); second declension

1. Peter

Inflection

Descendants

See also

• Κηφᾶς ‎(Kēphâs)
• Σίμων ‎(Símōn)

References

• «Πέτρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G4074”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• NA27

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πέτρος ‎(Pétros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetɾos/
• Hyphenation: Πέ‧τρος

Proper noun

Πέτρος • ‎(Pétros) m

1. A male given name, Peter
2. (Christianity) Any of the religious figures named Peter in the Bible, in particular the apostle of Jesus.
3. Any of the saints whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 29 June.

Declension

Related terms

• (diminutive form) Πετράκης

Ancient Greek

Noun

πέτρος • ‎(pétros) m, f ‎(genitive πέτρου); second declension

1. rock, stone, boulder
2. type of reed

Usage notes

• Originally masculine, feminine in later poets.

Declension

Derived terms

• πάντα κινῆσαι πέτρον ‎(pánta kinêsai pétron, “leave no stone unturned”)

Synonyms

• (stone): λίθος ‎(líthos)

References

• πέτρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέτρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέτρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πέτρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πέτρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πέτρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boulder idem, page 90.
  • crag idem, page 182.
  • rock idem, page 719.
  • stone idem, page 819.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill