peta
Spanish, noun
peta is spelled P-E-T-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 41,788th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peta is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “turtle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of petar. With an accent, petá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of petar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cigarrillo de marihuana u otras drogas”.
What does peta mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineturtle
noun
- 1
femininehump (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
prefix
- 1
peta- (SI prefix multiplying the unit by 10¹⁵)
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of petar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. Prefijo del Sistema Internacional de Unidades que indica un factor de 10¹⁵, equivalente a 1 000 000 000 000 000 (mil billones).
noun: 1. Cigarrillo de marihuana u otras drogas.
noun: 1. (Myrceugenia) Nombre común para varias especies de pequeños árboles de la familia de las mirtáceas que crecen en lugares húmedos y sombríos del sur de Chile. Algunas de ellas producen frutos comestibles conocidos como mitahues o mitaos.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of peta
- petas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is peta in Spanish?
peta appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).