Ῥοδόπη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a Thracian hydronym *Rudupa (“red river”). Compare with river-names in Lithuanian Rùdupė, Rũdupė; Latvian Rudupe; Samogitian Рудупя, Рудупъ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥o.dó.pɛː/ → /roˈðo.pi/ → /roˈðo.pi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥o.dó.pɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /roˈdo.pe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /roˈðo.pi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /roˈðo.pi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /roˈðo.pi/

Proper noun

Ῥοδόπη • (Rhodópē) f (genitive Ῥοδόπης); first declension

1. Rhodope, a woman in Greek mythology
2. Rhodope Mountains

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ῥοδόπη; τῆς Ῥοδόπης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥοδόπη hē Rhodópē
Genitive	τῆς Ῥοδόπης tês Rhodópēs
Dative	τῇ Ῥοδόπῃ têi Rhodópēi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥοδόπην tḕn Rhodópēn
Vocative	Ῥοδόπη Rhodópē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

The personal name does not take a definite article.

Descendants

• Greek: Ροδόπη (Rodópi)
• → Bulgarian: Родопи (Rodopi), Родопа (Rodopa)
• → Latin: Rhodopē

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024