Pera

Pera (plural Peras)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pera is the 11899^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2631 individuals. Pera is most common among Hispanic/Latino (47.74%) and White (46.83%) individuals.

• Earp, Rape, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

From pēra (“wallet”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.ra/, [ˈpeːrä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ra/, [ˈpɛːrä]

Pēra m sg (genitive Pērae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Marcus Junius Pera, a Roman consul

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Pera”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek Πέρα (Péra, “across”).

Pera (definite accusative Perayı, plural Peralar)

1. a neighborhood in Istanbul