Πέτρος

See also: πέτρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.tros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tros/

Proper noun

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

Peter

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πέτρος; τοῦ Πέτρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πέτρος ho Pétros
Genitive	τοῦ Πέτρου toû Pétrou
Dative	τῷ Πέτρῳ tôi Pétrōi
Accusative	τὸν Πέτρον tòn Pétron
Vocative	Πέτρε Pétre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Πέτρος (Pétros)
→ Aghwan: 𐕗𐔴𐕜𐕙𐕒𐕚 (ṗeṭros)
→ Albanian: Pjetër
→ Arabic: بُطْرُس (buṭrus)
→ Old Armenian: Պետրոս (Petros)
- Armenian: Պետրոս (Petros)
- → Aghwan: 𐕗𐔴𐕜𐕙𐕒𐕚 (ṗeṭros)
→ Belarusian: Пётра (Pjótra), Пятро́ (Pjatró)
→ Bulgarian: Петър (Petǎr)
→ Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃 (paitrus)
→ Hebrew: פטרוס (Peṭrōs)
→ Korean: 베드로 (bedeuro)
→ Macedonian: Петар (Petar), Петре (Petre)
→ Persian: پطرس (petros)
→ Russian: Пётр (Pjotr)
- → Finnish: Pietari, Petri, Petteri
- → Polish: Piotr
→ Serbo-Croatian: Петар, Petar
→ Ukrainian: Петро (Petro)
→ Latin: Petrus
- Asturian: Pedru
- Catalan: Pere
- Corsican: Petru
- French: Pierre, Piers
  - → Breton: Pêr
- Galician: Pedro
- Italian: Pietro, Piero
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Pedro
  - Portuguese: Pedro
- Romanian: Petru
- Sicilian: Petru, Pieri
- Spanish: Pedro
  - → Cebuano: Pedro
  - → Tagalog: Pedro
- Venetian: Piero
- → Basque: Peio, Peru
- → Cornish: Peder
- → Dutch: Peter, Pieter, Petrus
- → Old English: Petrus
  - Middle English: Peter
    - English: Peter
    - Scots: Peter
- → German: Peter, Petrus
  - → Czech: Petr
  - → Estonian: Peeter, Peetrus
  - → Hungarian: Péter
  - → Slovak: Peter
  - → Slovene: Peter
- → Old Irish: Petur
  - Irish: Peadar
  - → Icelandic: Pétur
- → Japanese: ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero)
- → Latvian: Pēteris
- → Lithuanian: Petras
- → Maltese: Pietru
- → Old Norse: Pétr
  - Faroese: Pætur
  - Danish: Peter (influenced by German Peter), Peder
  - Norwegian: Peter (influenced by German Peter)
  - Swedish: Peter (influenced by German Peter)
- → Swedish: Per, Petrus
- → Turkish: Petrus
- → Welsh: Pedr

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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Πέτρος • (Pétros) m

a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
(Christianity) Any of the religious figures named Peter in the Bible, in particular the apostle of Jesus.
Any of the saints whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 29 June.

Declension

Πέτρος

case \ number	singular
nominative	Πέτρος •
genitive	Πέτρου •
accusative	Πέτρο •
vocative	Πέτρο •

Related terms

(diminutive form) Πετράκης (Petrákis)

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