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petre

/ˈpiːtə(ɹ)/UK/ˈpiːtə/

petre noun: saltpetre. Also the clipping of pet regression.

Noun

petre (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) saltpetre
    • Oats are much assisted by the application of petre[…]1841, The Farmer's Magazine, page 282

Proper noun capitalized: Petre

Petre

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.
  2. An English barony.
  3. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek, mostly transferred back from the surname.

Also used as

petre is also the clipping of pet regression.

Origin of petre

From a medieval spelling variant of Peter.

Words formed from petre

Questions about petre

What does petre mean?
Petre means saltpetre.
What part of speech is petre?
Petre can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce petre?
Petre is pronounced /ˈpiːtə(ɹ)/.

Words near petre in the dictionary

  1. Petrarchizes
  2. Petrarchizing
  3. petrarcid
  4. petraries
  5. petrary
  6. petre
  7. petre oil
  8. Petrea
  9. petrean
  10. Petreas
  11. Petree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: petre (page history and authors); Petre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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