Message: "Cannot define or translate name "Piedra""

Cannot define or translate name "Piedra"

by J. P. (guest)

4/14/2004, 4:27 PM

This name I take to be of Spanish descent, and it most likely is. I first intended to get an equivalent of this name in Russian, but not as simply a word but a traditional patronymic--basically, the way a Russian would derive this name. However, I'm having trouble simply figuring out what it means. If someone could either a) just translate it into a Russian patronymic or b) tell me what it means, I would be grateful. Also, if someone knows the patronymic form in Russian of the name "Pyotr" or the other form (which is not a pet name; i forgot the exact name of this other form), i would also be grateful to them.

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- Giacomo (guest) +5

4/15/2004, 7:39 AM

Piedra is a Spanish word for "stone", in Italian the word is similar: Pietra. The two words come from a latin word "petra".
So it is for the first name PETER, PEDRO or PIETRO.
The Russian form of Peter is PIOTR and the surname coming from PIOTR is PETROV, a very common surname in Russia.
I don't know which is the russian word for stone

I hope this information will be useful to you.

Bye
Giacomo

- yannis (guest) +4

4/15/2004, 10:14 AM

To Giacomo:

"PETRA", is definetely greek and means stone.

(Jesus said "You will be called Peter because on this stone I'll
build the Church")

Ciao
Yannis

- Obie (guest) +3

4/15/2004, 11:12 AM

All these words are derived from Sanskrit VAJRA, 'diamond, thunderbolt', because this is the oldest known language.

- yannis (guest) +2

4/15/2004, 11:42 AM

My point was that Giacomo was not giving the meaning of
this "latin" word "petra"...
Does "petra" mean anything in latin? I don't know and I
would like to know.

Regarding the Sanskrit etymology, I don't know; I accept
your opinion. But I feel that "petra", "Petros", "Pedro" etc
are much closer to each other than to the ancient origin
VAJRA.

- Obie (guest) +1

4/15/2004, 2:36 PM

Well, petra does in fact mean stone, rock, crag. See http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin. I should have kept quiet about VAJRA though. I don't know where I got that from. It may be more likely that the real origin is sanskrit PRASTARA 'stone'...

- yannis (guest)

4/15/2004, 3:13 PM

Thank you!

This webpage (Perseus) is really great!

Thank you

- Sean Foglai (guest) +1

4/14/2004, 7:55 PM

Not sure ... but it definitely looks like a form of 'Peter' ...and there are, of course, innumerable varieties of that word, which would ultimately mean 'rock'...to the best of my knowledge.

- Pedro (guest)

8/20/2004, 2:45 PM

Naming someone "piedra" would look as dumb as calling him baptizing him "Stone", the Spanish Name is "Pedro"... It could be seen like a surname however... Pretty much like there is "Olivier Stone" but I haven't seen it as a surname by itself... I've seen it in surnames like "De la Piedra" which means "from the stone" or "of the stone"

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