Petr

English

Proper noun

Petr

  1. Alternative form of Pyotr.
    • 2000 March 30, Ian Traynor, “[Vladimir] Putin urged to apply the Pinochet stick”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 August 2013:
      Petr Aven, president of Alfa, Russia's biggest and most successful private bank, and a key business supporter of the newly elected president, said that Mr Putin should model his regime on that of Augusto Pinochet of Chile, combining Reaganomics with dictatorial controls.
    • 2015 January 7, Joshua Yaffa, “The Search for Petr Khokhlov”, in The New York Times Magazine[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 January 2015:
      After their father died and their mother fell into drink, Petr Khokhlov and his brother, Sergey, were sent to an orphanage in Novouzensk, a small, dusty town of low-slung Soviet-era apartment blocks on Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
    • 2022 February 27, Alice E. M. Underwood, “Transgression and the social body in Petr Pavlensky and Seroe Fioletovoe’s political performance art”, in Galina Miazhevich, editor, Queering Russian Media and Culture (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)‎[3], Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech Petr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛtr̩]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛtr̩
  • Hyphenation: Pe‧tr

Proper noun

Petr m anim (possessive adjective Petrův)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
  2. (biblical) Peter (the Apostle)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Old Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Petrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈpɛtr̩/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈpɛtr̩/

Proper noun

Petr m pers (possessive adjective Petróv)

  1. a male given name

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: Petr
  • Old Polish: Piotr, Piotro, Pietr, Pioter, Pieter, Piotyr, Pietyr
    • Polish: Piotr
    • Silesian: Pyjter
    • Kashubian: Pioter
    • Slovincian: Pjôter

Further reading