petrine
/ˈpiˌtɹaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter or Peter the Great.
adj
Of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter or Peter the Great.
Example Sentences
- "the Petrine Epistles"
- "...the statement of Apost. Const. vi. 8, that his ordination was Pauline, rather than Petrine, according to the competing traditions of St. Epiphanus and Rufinus, in which case he is the particular link in the Pauline succession."
- "And thus, in this connection, is intruded upon us the narrative in the Petrine Gospel, which afterwards became famous, and according to which the Cross was borne to heaven with Christ at the Ascension."
- "At the same time the tinctures of the reversed Petrine cross on the field and the chief changed from red to blue."
- "The Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar takes this approach, arguing that in the church there is a Marian principle of holy obedience complementary to the Petrine principle of orderly hierarchical rule."
Etymology
From Latin Petrus + -ine, perhaps after Pauline. Compare Ancient Greek πέτρινος (pétrinos, “stony, rocky”) and Late Latin petrinus (“of stone”).
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: la:Petrus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpiˌtɹaɪn/
- British English: /ˈpiːtɹaɪn/
Inflected Forms
more Petrine (comparative)
most Petrine (superlative)