Where does “Petra” come from?
Petra comes from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος, from the Ancient Greek common noun πέτρος meaning rock or stone.
Petra (English): in full, Petra in Aegypto
Definitions
- in full, Petra in Aegypto
Ancestry of “Petra”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 2 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 3 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 4 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 5 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 6 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 7 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 8 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 9 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |