Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πέτρη ‎(pétrē) (Epic, Ionic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pétra/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pétra/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pétɾa/

Noun

πέτρᾱ • ‎(pétrā) f ‎(genitive πέτρας); first declension

1. rock formation: cliff, ledge, cave, ridge
2. stone (as a building material)

Inflection

Related terms

• πέτρος ‎(pétros)

Descendants

• Greek: πέτρα ‎(pétra)
• Latin: petra

References

• πέτρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέτρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πέτρα» 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
• πέτρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4073”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boulder idem, page 90.
  • cliff idem, page 137.
  • Corycian cave idem, page 1007.
  • rock idem, page 719.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέτρα ‎(pétra).

Noun

πέτρα • ‎(pétra) f ‎(plural πέτρες)

1. rock, stone (mass or fragments)
2. (figuratively) rock (something hard and stable)
3. (nautical) rock (rocky hazard)

Declension

Synonyms

• (rock): λίθος m ‎(líthos, “stone”)

Related terms

• πέτρωμα n ‎(pétroma, “rock”)
• πέτρινος ‎(pétrinos, “rock”)

External links

• πέτρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el