Given name & surname · also Latin
Petras
Petras is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Lithuanian.
Original LatinPetrus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Petras comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Lithuanian usage, Petras developed from Πέτρος.
Petras’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Petras has a diminutive in PETKUS. In Lithuanian usage, Petras developed from the Ancient Greek form Πέτρος. In Lithuanian usage, Petras has a conventional equivalent in the German form Peter.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Petras has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Petras comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 33
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Petrussource · Latin
- PeterGerman
- Pedroequivalent
- Pierreequivalent
- PietroItalian
- Pieroequivalent
- Petarequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
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- Pieterequivalent
- Peerequivalent
- PiotrPolish
- PetrCzech
- Kepaequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Perequivalent
- Petroequivalent
- Peetuequivalent
- Pehrequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- Pyotrequivalent
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Пётрequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pietariequivalent
- Pēterisequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Péterequivalent
- Պետրոսequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- Πέτροςroot · Ancient Greek
People named Petras
- Petras CvirkaLithuanian writer (1909-1947)
- Petras KlimasLithuanian diplomat and historian (1891-1969)
- Petras AuštrevičiusLithuanian politicianborn 1963
- Petras GriškevičiusLithuanian politician (1924-1987)
- Petras VileišisLithuanian engineer and publisher (1851–1926)
- Petras GražulisLithuanian politicianborn 1958
- Petras VaitiekūnasLithuanian politicianborn 1953
- Petras KubiliūnasLithuanian general and politician (1894-1946)
- Petras GeniušasLithuanian musicianborn 1961
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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