different between jordan vs petra

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete): iurdan, iurdane, iurdone, yordan, iourden, iorden, jurdon, jordon, jourdon, jordain, jurden, jourdan, jorden

Etymology

From Latin jurdanus, unattested outside of England and of uncertain etymology. Usually derived from a clipped form of Jordan bottle, supposedly a bottle of curative water brought back from the River Jordan by Crusaders and pilgrims to the Holy Land, but this seems unsupported in its actual attestations. Its use for chamber pots may derive from the alchemical device having been used to hold urine.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d????dn?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d????dn?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
• Hyphenation: jor?dan

Noun

jordan (plural jordans)

1. (obsolete) A vessel resembling a retort bulb or Florence flask with a truncated neck and flared mouth, used by medieval doctors and alchemists.
   • 15th c., Sloane MS. 73, p. 133:

     Make a good lute... and þerwiþ daub þi Iordan al aboute... and putte al þi mater in þe Iordan and hange it ouer þe fier by þe necke þ^t þe glas be almoost an hond brede fro þe coolis.

2. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
   • 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, p. 267:

     Iurdone, pyssepotte, iurdanus.

   • a. 1598,, William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Fourth, Act II, Scene i:

     2.Car. Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): jordan-pot, see also Thesaurus:chamber pot

Derived terms

• jordan-pot

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Jardon

English

Etymology

From Latin petra (“rock”). Doublet of piedra.

Noun

petra

1. stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209:

     Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.

Anagrams

• Peart, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe.t?a/

Alternative forms

• p'ra

Pronoun

petra

1. what?

Finnish

Noun

petra

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of peura

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

petra (plural petras)

1. stone

Latin

Etymology

A late borrowing from Ancient Greek ????? (pétra, “rock”), further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pe.tra/, [?p?t??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pe.tra/, [?p??t???]

Noun

petra f (genitive petrae); first declension

1. stone, rock

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• Petrus
• s?l petrae, s?l petræ (stone salt; that is, found as an incrustation)

Descendants

References

• petra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• petra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• petra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• petra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• petra in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• petra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• petra in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• petra in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin petra.

Noun

petra f

1. stone