Etymology

piedra

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Spanish piedra
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  1. Spanish · borrowed frompiedra“stone”
  2. English todaypiedra

Borrowed from Spanish piedra (“stone”). Doublet of petra.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.