Petronius

Latin

"stone, yokel, woodpecker"

Petronius Origin and Meaning

The name Petronius is a boy's name meaning "stone, yokel, woodpecker".

Petronius is an Ancient Roman family name that may be drawn from the word petronis, meaning yokel or woodpecker, or the more familiar meaning stone, which applies to all the Peter names.

Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier thought to have written Satyricon. Petronius the Arbiter is the name of a cat in the book The Door Into Summer.