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From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Pedro, Piers, and Boutros.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpiːtə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpitɚ/, [ˈpʰitɚ], [ˈpʰiɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
- Homophones: PETA, pita (Received Pronunciation), peter
Peter
- (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.
- Synonym: Papa
Peter (countable and uncountable, plural Peters)
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
1911, J. M. Barrie, chapter I, in Peter Pan, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, published 1993:
She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Boys' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 90:
What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,
- The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
- (biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
- Synonym: (abbreviation) Pet.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah, United States, named after Peter Maughan.
- Synonym: Petersboro
- Ayot St Peter
- blue peter
- Chalfont St Peter
- Charlton St Peter
- Peter boat
- Peterborough
- Peterchurch
- Peter Funk
- Peter Island
- Peter Pan
- Peter Parker principle
- Peter pence, Peter's pence
- Peter principle
- Petersburg
- Peter's fish
- Peters Marland
- Peter's penny
- Peter the Great
- rob Peter to pay Paul
- Saint Peter
- St. Peter
- St Peters
- St Peter's
- Thorpe St Peter
- McFedries
- McFetridge
- Parkerson
- Parkin
- Parkins
- Parkinson
- Parkyn
- Parratt
- Parrell
- Parren
- Parrett
- Parritt
- Parrot
- Parrott
- Pearce
- Pears
- Pearse
- Pearson
- Peat
- Peate
- Peattie
- Peaty
- Peddie
- Peers
- Peet
- Peirce
- Peirse
- Pell
- Pells
- Pelly
- Perce
- Perkin
- Perkins
- Perot
- Perowne
- Perratt
- Perret
- Perrett
- Perrin
- Perring
- Perrins
- Perris
- Perriss
- Perron
- Perrott
- Perse
- Persse
- Peterkin
- Peters
- Peterson
- Pether
- Pethers
- Petre
- Petrie
- Pierce
- Piers
- Pierse
- Pierson
- Pither
- Pithers
- Porrett
- Porritt
- Purkins
- surnames
male given name
- Afrikaans: Pieter (af)
- Albanian: Pjétër, Pjétro, Pétër, Pétro
- Amharic: ጴጥሮስ (p̣eṭros)
- Arabic: بُطْرُس m (buṭrus) (cognate), بِيتَر m (bītar) (transliteration)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ (Peṭraus)
- Armenian: Պետրոս (hy) (Petros)
- Asturian: Pedru (ast) m
- Basque: Peio (eu), Peru (eu), Petri
- Bavarian: Bäda, Beda
- Belarusian: Пётр m (Pjotr), Пятро́ m (Pjatró)
- Breton: Pêr (br) m
- Bulgarian: Пѐтър (bg) m (Pètǎr)
- Catalan: Pere (ca)
- Cebuano: Pedro
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: Петӗр (Pet̬ĕr)
- Cornish: Peder
- Corsican: Petru (co)
- Czech: Petr (cs) m
- Danish: Peter (da), Peder, Per
- Dutch: Pieter (nl)
- Emilian: Pîr
- Esperanto: Petro (eo)
- Estonian: Peeter
- Faroese: Petur (fo), Pætur m, Per m
- Finnish: Pietari (fi), Petteri (fi), Petri (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: Pierro
- French: Pierre (fr) m
- Friulian: Pieri m
- Galician: Pedro (gl) m
- Georgian: პეტრე (ṗeṭre)
- German: Peter (de) m, Per (de) m
- Alemannic German: Peder
- Greek: Πέτρος (el) m (Pétros), Παναγιώτης (el) (Panagiótis), Πήτερ (el) (Píter) (transliteration from English), Πίτερ (el) (Píter) (transliteration from English)
- Ancient Greek: Πέτρος m (Pétros)
- Greenlandic: Piita (kl), Piitaq
- Hawaiian: Pekelo
- Hebrew: פֶּטֶר (he) (Péter)
- Hindi: पीटर (pīṭar)
- Hungarian: Péter (hu)
- Icelandic: Pétur (is) m
- Ido: Petrus m
- Indonesian: Petrus
- Irish: Peadar (ga)
- Italian: Pietro (it) m, Piero (it)
- Japanese: ピーター (Pītā) (transliteration)
- Konkani: पेद्रु (pedru)
- Korean: 피터 (piteo)
- Latin: Petrus (la)
- Latvian: Pēteris (lv)
- Limburgish: Petrus
- Lithuanian: Pẽtras
- Low German:
- German Low German: Päiter m
- Luxembourgish: Péiter
- Macedonian: Петар (mk) m (Petar), Петре (mk) m (Petre)
- Maltese: Pietru (mt)
- Manx: Peddyr (gv) m
- Maori: Pita (mi)
- Marathi: पीटर m (pīṭar)
- Mongolian: Петр m (Petr)
- Norman: Pièrre m, Piteur m
- Northern Sami: Piera
- Norwegian: Peder (no), Peter (no), Petter (no)
- Occitan: Pèire (oc) m, Pèr m, Pèir (oc) m
- Old Church Slavonic: Петръ (Petrŭ)
- Old Norse: Pétr m
- Persian: پیتر (piter)
- Polish: Piotr (pl) m
- Portuguese: Pedro (pt)
- Romanian: Petru (ro), Petre (ro)
- Romansch: Peider m
- Russian: Пётр (ru) m (Pjotr) (cognate), Пи́тер (ru) m (Píter) (transliteration)
- Sardinian: Pedru m, Perdu m, Predu m
- Scots: Peter
- Scottish Gaelic: Peadar (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: Petru m
- Sinhalese: පේතෘස් m (pētr̥s)
- Slovak: Peter (sk)
- Slovene: Péter (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: Pedro (es)
- Swahili: Petro (sw) class 5
- Swedish: Per (sv), Peter (sv), Petter (sv)
- Tagalog: Pedro (tl)
- Tamil: பீட்டர் (pīṭṭar)
- Thai: ปีเตอร์ (th) (bpii-dtə̂ə)
- Tigrinya: ጴጥሮስ (p̣eṭros)
- Turkish: Petrus, Petros
- Ukrainian: Петро́ m (Petró) (cognate), Пі́тер m (Píter) (transliteration)
- Urdu: پطرس m (Piṭrus)
- Venetian: Piero m
- Vietnamese: Phêrô
- Walloon: Pire (wa) m
- Waray-Waray: Pedro
- Welsh: Pedr (cy)
- West Frisian: Piter
- Wolof: Piyeer
- Yakut: Бүөтүр (Büötür)
- Yiddish: פּעטרוס (petrus)
- Zealandic: Petrus
the Apostle
- Afrikaans: Petrus (af)
- Aghwan: 𐕗𐔴𐕜𐕙𐕒𐕚 (ṗeṭros)
- Albanian: Pjétri, Pétro,
- Amharic: ጴጥሮስ (p̣eṭros)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ (Peṭraus)
- Arabic: بُطْرُس (buṭrus)
- Armenian: Պետրոս (hy) (Petros)
- Basque: Peio (eu), Peru (eu), Petri
- Belarusian: Пётр m (Pjotr)
- Breton: Pêr (br) m
- Bulgarian: Пе́тър (bg) m (Pétǎr)
- Cebuano: Pedro
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 彼得 (bei2 dak1), 伯多祿/伯多禄 (baak3 do1 luk6) (Catholic), 伯鐸/伯铎 (baak3 dok6) (Catholic), 裴特若 (pui4 dak6 joek6) (Orthodox)
- Eastern Min: 彼得 (Bī-dáik), 伯多祿/伯多禄 (Báe̤k-dŏ̤-lṳ̆k) (Catholic), 伯鐸/伯铎 (Báe̤k-dŏk) (Catholic)
- Hakka: 彼得 (Pí-tet)
- Hokkien: 彼得 (Pí-tek), 伯多祿/伯多禄 (Pek-to-lo̍k) (Catholic)
- Mandarin: 彼得 (zh) (Bǐdé), 伯多祿/伯多禄 (zh) (Bóduōlù) (Catholic), 伯鐸/伯铎 (Bóduó) (Catholic), 裴特若 (Péitèruò) (Orthodox)
- Corsican: Petru (co)
- Czech: Petr (cs) m
- Danish: Peter (da)
- Dutch: Petrus (nl)
- Emilian: Pîr
- Estonian: Peetrus
- Faroese: Pætur m
- Finnish: Pietari (fi)
- French: Pierre (fr) m
- Friulian: Pieri m
- Georgian: პეტრე (ṗeṭre)
- German: Petrus
- Greek: Πέτρος (el) m (Pétros)
- Ancient: Πέτρος m (Pétros)
- Greenlandic: Piita (kl), Piitaq
- Gujarati: પિતર m (pitar)
- Hawaiian: Petero
- Hebrew: פטרוס
- Hindi: पतरस m (patras)
- Hungarian: Péter (hu)
- Icelandic: Pétur (is) m
- Ido: Petrus m
- Indonesian: Petrus
- Irish: Peadar (ga) m
- Old Irish: Petur m
- Italian: Pietro (it)
- Japanese: (in Biblical contexts) ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero), ペトロス (Petorosu)
- Kazakh: Петір (Petır)
- Konkani: पेद्रु (pedru)
- Korean: 베드로 (Bedeuro)
- Kurdish:
- Latin: Petrus (la)
- Latvian: Pēteris (lv) m
- Limburgish: Petrus
- Lithuanian: Pẽtras m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Päiter m
- Macedonian: Петар (mk) (Petar)
- Maltese: Pietru (mt) m
- Manx: Peddyr (gv) m
- Maore Comorian: Monye
- Maori: Pita (mi)
- Mongolian: Петр m (Petr), Хад m (Xad) (rare)
- Norman: Pièrre m
- Northern Sami: Biehtár
- Norwegian: Peter (no)
- Old Church Slavonic: Петръ m (Petrŭ)
- Old English: Petrus m
- Old Norse: Pétr m
- Persian: پطرس (fa) (petros)
- Polish: Piotr (pl) m
- Portuguese: Pedro (pt) m
- Romanian: Petru (ro) m
- Russian: Пётр (ru) (Pjotr)
- Scots: Peter
- Scottish Gaelic: Peadar (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: Santu Petru
- Sindhi: پطرس
- Sinhalese: ශුද්ධවූ පේදුරු තුමා (śuddhawū pēduru tumā)
- Slovak: Peter (sk) m
- Slovene: Peter (sl) m
- Somali: Butros
- Spanish: Pedro (es)
- Swahili: Petro (sw)
- Swedish: Petrus (sv)
- Tagalog: Pedro (tl)
- Tamil: இராயப்பர் (ta) (irāyappar)
- Thai: เปโตร (bpee-dtroo)
- Tibetan: པེ་ཏྲོ (pe tro)
- Tigrinya: ጴጥሮስ (p̣eṭros)
- Ukrainian: Петро́ (Petró)
- Urdu: پطرس m
- Vietnamese: Phêrô (Roman Catholic), Phierơ (Protestant)
- Waray-Waray: Pedro
- Welsh: Pedr (cy) m
- West Frisian: Petrus
- Wolof: Piyeer
- Zealandic: Petrus
one of the epistles of Peter
- Afrikaans: Petrus (af)
- Amharic: የጴጥሮስ መልእክት (yäp̣eṭros mälʾəkt)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ (Peṭraus)
- Armenian: Պետրոս (hy) (Petros)
- Awadhi: पतरस (patras)
- Basque: Peio (eu), Peru (eu), Petri
- Bavarian: Beda
- Breton: Pêr (br) m
- Burmese: ရှင်ပေတရုဩဝါဒစာပဌမစောင် (hrangpeta.ru.au:wada.capa.hta.ma.caung), ရှင်ပေတရုဩဝါဒစာဒုတိယစောင် (hrangpeta.ru.au:wada.cadu.ti.ya.caung)
- Cebuano: Pedro
- Chinese:
- Corsican: Petru (co)
- Czech: Petrův (cs) m
- Danish: Petersbrev,
- Dutch: Peter (nl) m
- Estonian: (please verify) Peetruse, (please verify) Pt
- Faroese: Pætur
- Finnish: Pietarin kirje
- French: Pierre (fr) f, P (fr) f
- German: (please verify) (Der 1./2. Brief des) Petrus, (please verify) Petr (de), Peter (de)
- Greek: Πέτρος (el) m (Pétros)
- Ancient Greek: Πέτρος m (Pétros)
- Greenlandic: Piita (kl), Piitaq
- Hawaiian: Petero
- Hungarian: Péter (hu)
- Icelandic: Pétur (is) m
- Ido: Petrus m
- Indonesian: Petrus
- Irish: Peadar (ga) m
- Italian: Pietro (it) m
- Japanese: ペテロの手紙 (Petero no Tegami)
- Kazakh: Петірдің хаты (Petırdıñ xaty)
- Khmer: ពេត្រុសទី (peitruh-tii-)
- Konkani: पेद्रुचें पत्र (pedrucẽ patra)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پەترۆس (petros)
- Latin: Petrus (la) m
- Latvian: Pēteris (lv) m
- Limburgish: Petrus
- Lithuanian: Pẽtras m, Pẽtro laiškaĩ (lt) f pl
- Low German:
- German Low German: Päiter m
- Macedonian: Петрово n (Petrovo)
- Malayalam: പത്രൊസ് (patrosŭ)
- Maltese: Pietru (mt) m
- Manx: Peddyr (gv)
- Maori: Pita (mi)
- Mongolian: (please verify) Петр (Petr), (please verify) Пт (Pt)
- Norwegian: Peter (no), (please verify) Peters, Pet
- Odia: ପିତରଙ୍କ (pitaraṅka)
- Polish: List świętego Piotra Apostoła m; List św. Piotra m; List Piotra m; P (pl)
- Portuguese: Pedro (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਪਤਰਸ (patras)
- Romanian: Petru (ro) m
- Scots: Peter
- Scottish Gaelic: Peadar (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) Pt m
- Slovak: Petrov m
- Slovene: Peter (sl) m
- Somali: Butros
- Spanish: Pedro (es) m
- Swahili: Petro (sw)
- Swedish: Petrus (sv), Petrusbrevet, (please verify) Pet.
- Tagalog: Pedro (tl)
- Tamil: பேதுரு (ta) (pēturu)
- Thai: เปโตร
- Turkish: Petrus'un
- Uzbek: Butrus
- Vietnamese: Phêrô (Roman Catholic), Phierơ (Protestant)
- Waray-Waray: Pedro
- Welsh: Pedr (cy) m
- West Frisian: Piter
- Zealandic: Petrus
From English Peter, from Middle English Petre, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).
Peter
- a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]
From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Later reinforced by the German Peter.
Peter
- a male given name
- Peter (biblical figure).
- Og jeg siger dig, at du er Peter, og på den klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke, --- Bibelen, Matthæus 16:18 (1992 transl.)
- (variants) Peder, Per
- (feminine forms) Pernille, Petra, Petrea, Petrine
- (surnames) Pedersen, Petersen
- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 150 294 males with the given name Peter have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
From Middle Dutch Peter, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”), as a name a loan translation of Aramaic כֵּיפָא (“stone, rock; Peter, Cephas”).
Peter m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
Borrowed from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).
Peter m (proper noun, strong, genitive Peters or Peter, plural Peters or Peter)
- a male given name, feminine equivalent Petra
- biblical form: Petrus
Peter m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Peters, plural Peters or Peter)
- A common surname.
- The unchanged plural is preferred in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
- In northern and central Germany, both forms are common for the given name, but the surname usually takes -s in the plural.
Peter m or f by sense
Peter m or f by sense
- A male given name and surname in German
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
From Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).
Peter (genitive Petres)
- “Pẹ̄ter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Later reinforced by the German Peter.
Peter
- a male given name
- Peter (biblical figure)
- Og det sier jeg deg: Du er Peter; på denne klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke. Bibelen, Matteus 16:18 (1985 transl.)
- (male given names) Peder, Peer, Per, Petter
- (feminine names) Pernille, Petra, Petrine
- (surnames) Pedersen, Petersen, Pettersen
- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 4 327 males with the given name Peter (compared to 10 139 named Petter) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).
Peter
- a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
Peter m anim (genitive singular Petra, nominative plural Petrovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
- “Peter”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Pẹ́tər m anim
- a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
Masculine anim., hard o-stem | ||
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nominative | Péter | |
genitive | Pétra | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
Péter | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
Pétra | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
Pétru | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
Pétra | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
Pétru | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
Pétrom |
From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Later reinforced by the German Peter.
Peter
- The letter "P" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
Peter c (genitive Peters)
- a male given name
variants:
feminine forms:
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN:112 253 males with the given name Peter living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on May 19th, 2011.