Given name · also Latin
Pèire
Pèire is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Occitan.
Original LatinPetrus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Pèire comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Occitan usage, Pèire developed from Petrus. In Occitan usage, Pèire developed from Πέτρος.
Pèire’s family of names
In Occitan usage, Pèire developed from the Latin form Petrus. In Occitan usage, Pèire has a conventional equivalent in the English form Peter. In Occitan usage, Pèire has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Pietro.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Pèire has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Pèire comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Petrusroot · Latin
- PeterEnglish, German
- Pierreequivalent
- PietroItalian
- Peirceequivalent
- Pirequivalent
- Peiterequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
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People named Pèire
- Peire Vidaltroubadour1175–1205
- Peire d'Alvernhetroubadour1120–1168
- Peire de MaensacFrench troubadour
- Peire d'UsselOccitan poet1150
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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