- rock or stone: petrographyalso, before a vowel, petr-
- petroleum: petrochemical
- of or relating to the petroleum business: petrodollars, petropolitics
Origin of petro-
from Classical Greek petra, rock, or petros, stonepetro-
petro-Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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petro-
or petri- or petr-
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- Rock; stone: petroglyph.
- Petroleum: petrochemistry.
Origin of petro-
Greek from petros stone ; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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