Peter

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Peter is a male given name and a family name .

Origin and meanings

Peter is, via Latin Peter , of Greek origin (πέτρος Pétros ) and means rock (as a translation from Aramaic kepha ) in the sense of boulder. The grown rock is called petra in Greek . In the Jesus word, Matthew 16:18, both terms appear side by side as a play on words : “ You are 'Petros' (boulder), and I want to build my church on 'Petra' (grown rock) . "

In German, Peter also has the appellative sense of booby "clumsy man". These or similar meanings occur in compound words such lies Peter , Heulpeter , minced or mumps on. The origin of the names Schwarzer Peter for a card game, Hackepeter for a meat dish and Grouchy for a bad-tempered person is uncertain. The name of the chemical substance saltpeter is perhaps based on the Latin sal petrae "rock salt".

distribution

Peter is a very popular name in Germany. It is the most frequently given name of all over the past 120 years.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Peter was a moderately popular name. From the early 1930s, more and more boys were called Peter. In the 1940s and 1950s, the name was the most frequently given name for newborn boys a few times. From the beginning of the 1960s, its distribution gradually fell back to a medium level, where it remained until the end of the 1980s. From the beginning of the 1990s, however, the popularity of the name fell again significantly.

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Patronymic

The name is also diverse as a patronymic name-forming, whereby ancient colloquial forms of today's first name have been preserved:

Name bearer

A name

Saint peter
  • Simon Peter (1st century), adopted first bishop of Rome
  • Peter von Rates (also Peter von Braga, port .: São Pedro de Rates; † allegedly around 60, actually probably 5th or 6th century), saint, is considered the first bishop of Braga
  • Peter von Sebaste (around 340–391), bishop and saint
  • Peter of Luxembourg (1369–1387), French cardinal and bishop of Metz

See also: St. Peter , Definitions for Christian Context

Rulers, also ecclesiastical including bishops, see list of rulers named Peter
Further
  • Peter (jeweler) (13th / 12th century BC), ancient Egyptian jeweler
  • Peter Bartholomäus († 1099), French monk and mystic who accompanied the knights on the First Crusade
  • Peter the Hermit (also Peter of Amiens; around 1050–1115), French preacher at the time of the First Crusade
  • Peter de Colechurch (Peter of Colechurch; † 1205), English clergyman and architect
  • Peter von Kastl (around 1400), German Benedictine monk
  • Peter von Koblenz (around 1440–1501), medieval builder
  • Peter von Englisberg (around 1470–1545), Knight of the Order of St. John; the last Commander of the Coming Münchenbuchsee and Thunstetten

There are a large number of people whose first name is Peter. See Wikipedia People Search

Fictional people

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  • Ignaz Peter (1789–1872), senior bailiff in Baden
  • Ilka Peter (1903–1999), Austrian folklorist and dance teacher
  • Ingo Peter (* 1951), German soccer player and coach

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Wiktionary: Peter  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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  1. ^ Gospel of John 1:42.
  2. ↑ Günther Drosdowski : Lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of more than 3000 first names. Mannheim and Zurich 1968 (= Duden-Taschenbücher , 4), p. 168.
  3. ↑ Kluge. Etymological dictionary of the German language. 24th edition, Berlin / New York 2002, p. 381 p. v. Hackepeter; Duden. The large dictionary of the German language. Volume 4, Mannheim 1999, p. 1786 s. v. Heulliese
  4. ↑ Kluge. Etymological dictionary of the German language. 24th edition, Berlin / New York 2002, p. 1010 fs v. Ziegenpeter, p. 381 p. v. Hackepeter, p. 618 p. v. Grouch
  5. ↑ Kluge. Etymological dictionary of the German language. 24th edition, Berlin / New York 2002, p. 782 s. v. Saltpetre; Wolfgang Pfeiffer: Etymological dictionary of German. Munich 1999, p. 1161 s. v. Saltpetre
  6. ^ "Popular first names": Statistics all years
  7. ^ "Popular first names": Statistics Peter