πέτρα

• πέτρη (pétrē) — Epic, Ionic

Unknown. In the absence of an explanation, Beekes prefers a Pre-Greek borrowing.[1] Not related to Hindi पत्थर (patthar, “stone”)

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

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

• πέτρος (pétros)

• Greek: πέτρα (pétra)
• Mariupol Greek: пе́тра (pjétra)
• → Latin: petra (see there for further descendants)

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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 176.
  • rock idem, page 719.

From Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

Cognate with Mariupol Greek пе́тра (pjétra).

πέτρα • (pétra) f (plural πέτρες)

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

• (rock): λίθος m (líthos, “stone”)
• (rock): βράχος m (vráchos, “stone”)

• πέτρωμα n (pétroma, “rock”)
• πέτρινος (pétrinos, “rock”)
• οποία πέτρα κι αν σηκώσεις, τον βρίσκεις από κάτω (opoía pétra ki an sikóseis, ton vrískeis apó káto, “of people who are ubiquitous”) (literally: "whichever stone you pick up, you find him underneath")

• πέτρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• πέτρα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.