Ῥόδος

See also: Ρόδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Three possibilities are:

• Pre-Greek name - see Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃‎ (hrʿd, “snake”), a reference to the serpents that had supposedly inhabited the land in ancient times.
• From ῥόα (rhóa, “pomegranate”).
• From ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ó.dos/ → /ˈro.ðos/ → /ˈro.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ó.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈro.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ðos/

Proper noun

Ῥόδος • (Rhódos) f (genitive Ῥόδου); second declension

1. Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Ῥόδος; τῆς Ῥόδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥόδος hē Rhódos
Genitive	τῆς Ῥόδου tês Rhódou
Dative	τῇ Ῥόδῳ têi Rhódōi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥόδον tḕn Rhódon
Vocative	Ῥόδε Rhóde
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ῥόδιος (Rhódios)

Related terms

• Ῥόδη (Rhódē)

Descendants

• Arabic: رُودُس‎ (rūdus)
• Armenian: Հռոդոս (Hṙodos)
• English: Rhodes
• Greek: Ρόδος (Ródos)
• Hebrew: רודוס‎ (Rodos)
• Italian: Rodi
• Ladino: Rodi, Rodes
• Latin: Rhodus
• Turkish: Rodos

Further reading

• “Ῥόδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ῥόδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ῥόδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ῥόδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4499 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024