Ῥοδανός

See also: Ροδανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *Rodonos, *Rotonos, from a Proto-Celtic root similar to *reteti (“to flow, run, roll”). Lambert argues that this could have prefixed a second element akin to the root of the river name Danube, Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”).^[1] Alternatively, possibly from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic *ɸro-dena- (“to flow forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“toward, forward”) and the previously mentioned root.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥o.da.nós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ro.daˈnos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/

Proper noun

Ῥοδᾰνός • (Rhodanós) m (genitive Ῥοδᾰνοῦ); second declension

the river Rhône

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ῥοδᾰνός; τοῦ Ῥοδᾰνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥοδᾰνός ho Rhodanós
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥοδᾰνοῦ toû Rhodanoû
Dative	τῷ Ῥοδᾰνῷ tôi Rhodanôi
Accusative	τὸν Ῥοδᾰνόν tòn Rhodanón
Vocative	Ῥοδᾰνέ Rhodané
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Afrikaans: Rhône
→ Alemannic German: Rotten
→ Arabic: رون
→ Aragonese: Roine
→ Belarusian: Рона (Róna)
→ Breton: Ron
→ Catalan: Roine
→ Chuvash: Рона (Rona)
→ Czech: Rhône
→ Danish: Rhône
→ Dutch: Rhône
→ Estonian: Rhône
→ Finnish: Rhône
→ Franco-Provençal: Rôno
→ French: Rhône
→ Galician: Ródano
→ German: Rhône
Greek: Ροδανός (Rodanós)
→ Hebrew: רון
→ Hungarian: Rhône
→ Italian: Rodano
→ Japanese: ローヌ
→ Korean: 론 (ron)
→ Latin: Rhodanus
→ Latvian: Rona
→ Lithuanian: Rona
→ Luxembourgish: Rhône
→ Norwegian: Rhône
→ Occitan: Ròse
→ Polish: Rodan
→ Portuguese: Ródano
→ Russian: Рона (Rona)
→ Serbo-Croatian: Rona, Рона
→ Slovene: Rona
→ Spanish: Ródano
→ Swedish: Rhône
→ Turkish: Rhône

References

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024

^ Pierre-Yves Lambert, La langue gauloise, Paris, Errance, 1995, 240 p., p. 37