petro

petro (plural petros)

1. A Venezuelan cryptocurrency launched in 2018, supposed to be backed by the country's oil and mineral reserves. Symbol: ₽.

• -trope, ptero-, Porte, Perot, trope, retop, repot, tepor, toper, opter

petro (plural petri)

1. stone

From petra (“stone”) + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.tro]

petrō m (genitive petrōnis); third declension

1. a rustic, a country bumpkin, yokel, hayseed, hick

   Synonym: rūsticus

2. an old wether (a ram whose flesh is as hard as stone)

   Hypernym: vervēx

Third-declension noun.

• “pē̆tro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “petro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetɾo/ [ˈpe.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -etɾo
• Syllabification: pe‧tro

petro m (plural petros)

1. petro