Dictionary

Petrine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpiˌtɹaɪn/ (General-American)
• /ˈpiːtɹaɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Latin Petrus + -ine, perhaps after Pauline. Compare Ancient Greek πέτρινος (pétrinos, “stony, rocky”) and Late Latin petrinus (“of stone”).

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter or Peter the Great.
   • At the same time the tinctures of the reversed Petrine cross on the field and the chief changed from red to blue. 1992, Duane L. C. M. Galles, “The Reform of Ecclesiastical Heraldry Revisited”, in The American Benedictine Review, volume 43, number 4, →ISSN, page 424:
   • 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. 1896, A. H. Keane, transl., The Antichrist Legend: A Chapter in Christian and Jewish Folklore, London: Hutchinson and Co., translation of original by Wilhelm Bousset, →OL, page 235:
   • the Petrine Epistles
   • 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. 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
   • ...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. 1889, Richard Frederick Littledale, The Petrine Claims: A Critical Inquiry, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OL, page 199:
2. (of a cross) Of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter or Peter the Great. ▸ Depicted upside-down.

Forms

Coordinates

Lukan · Markan · Johannine · Matthean · Pauline

Deriveds

Petrinist · Petrinize · Petrinism · Petrinity

Translations (6)

sv petrinsk (of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter) · fr pétrinien (of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter) · de petrinisch (of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter) · pt petrino (of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter) · ca petrí (of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter) · pl Piotrowy (of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter)