Words that come from Ancient Greek πέτρα

307 words across 67 languages descend from Ancient Greek πέτρα — including petroleum, parsley, petrol, saltpetre, fusillade, petrochemical, petrous, limpet.

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English (92)

French (21)

Italian (18)

Portuguese (18)

Spanish (12)

Latin (11)

Old French (9)

Romanian (9)

Dutch (6)

Catalan (6)

Translingual (5)

Galician (5)

Polish (5)

Aromanian (5)

Middle English (5)

Cebuano (4)

German (4)

Medieval Latin (4)

Middle French (3)

Hungarian (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Istriot (2)

Sicilian (2)

Greek (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Friulian (2)

Russian (2)

Ido (2)

Sardinian (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Late Latin (2)

Asturian (1)

Mirandese (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Tagalog (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Slovene (1)

Turkish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Zulu (1)

Hebrew (1)

Korean (1)

Japanese (1)

Esperanto (1)

Thai (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Norman (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Occitan (1)

Walloon (1)

Hindi (1)

Swahili (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Guinea-Bissau Creole (1)

Indonesian (1)

Czech (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old English (1)

Words from Ancient Greek πέτρα — 307 descendants | Etymology Explorer