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Meaning & History
Latinized form of Greek Πετραία (Petraia) meaning "of a rock" as well as "rocky" and "living among the rocks", a derivative of πέτρα (petra). This was the name of an Oceanid according to Hesiod's Theogony, as well as an epithet of Scylla, who dwelt in or on a rock. Also compare the masculine Πετραῖος (Petraios), an epithet of the god Poseidon in Thessaly, as 'he who clave the rocks of Tempe, and drained Thessaly'.