ῥῶ

Ancient Greek

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Ρ ρ   –   English: rho

Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤓 (r‬ /⁠rēš⁠/).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̂ː/ → /ro/ → /ro/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̂ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ro/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ro/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ro/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ro/

Noun

ῥῶ • (rhô) n (indeclinable)

1. rho, the name for the seventeenth letter Ρ, ρ of the Ancient Greek alphabet.

Descendants

• → English: rho
• Greek: ρο (ro)

References

• “ῥῶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥῶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥῶ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette