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Peter | | Peter: Encyclopedia - Peter | | Peter is a popular male given name.
Peter comes from the Greek word πέτρα (read petra, in Latin used as petro-), meaning rock.
According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Apostle Peter (whose given name was Simon) the name Rock (Kephas or Cephas in Aramaic; Petros or "bedros" (Greek). The name was transliterated into Latin as Petrus, from ...
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Peter
Peter is a popular male given name.
Peter comes from the Greek word πέτρα (read petra, in Latin used as petro-), meaning rock.
According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Apostle Peter (whose given name was Simon) the name Rock (Kephas or Cephas in Aramaic; Petros or "bedros" (Greek). The name was transliterated into Latin as Petrus, from which the English form Peter derives.
Peter - Related names
- Petra (for a girl)
- Perkin or Parkin (diminutive)
- Peterson, Perkins, or Parkinson (patronymics)
Peter - In other languages
The following names can be interpreted as Peter in English:
- Albanian: Pjetër
- Arabic: Boutros
- Armenian: Պետրոս (Bedros in Western dialect, Petros in Eastern dialect)
- Belarusian: Пётра (Piotra) and Пятро (Piatro)
- Bulgarian: Петър (Peter)
- Catalan: Pere
- Czech: Petr
- Danish: Peter, Per, Peder
- Dutch: Peter, Pieter, Piet
- Estonian: Peeter
- Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
- French: Pierre (Note: True to the Greek, the word for stone in French is also "pierre")
- German: Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly)
- Greek: Πέτρος (Petros)
- Hindi: Pathar (Note: This is a literal translation of the word "stone" and is not commonly used as a name. Peter is translated as "Pathrus" in the Hindi versions of the bible.)
- Hebrew : פטר (Peter)
- Hungarian: Péter
- Icelandic: Pétur
- Imperial College colloquialism: Collingborne
- Irish: Peadar
- Italian: Pietro, Piero
- Korean: 베드로 (Bedeuro; or, less commonly, 페트루스; Peteuruseu), 피터 (Piteo)
- Japanese: ピーター (Piitaa), and in Biblical contexts ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ(Petero), or ペトロス (Petorosu)
- Latin: Petrus
- Latvian: Pēteris
- Maltese: Pietru
- Polish: Piotr
- Portuguese: Pedro
- Romanian: Petru
- Russian: Пётр (Pjotr)
- Scandinavian languages: Per, Peer (archaic), Peder, Petter, Peter
- Serbo-Croatian: Петар (Petar)
- Spanish: Pedro
- Tamil: Raayappar (Note: Refers to biblical Peter, not a common name)
- Ukrainian: Петро (Petro)
Category: Given names
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