Rhodes

English

Etymology

From French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), of uncertain etymology. Possibilities include a pre-Greek name (cf. Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd), "snake"), ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), and ῥοία (rhoía, “pomegranate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹoʊdz/
• IPA^(key): /ɹəʊdz/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: roads

Proper noun

Rhodes

1. A surname

   Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), English imperialist

2. An island in the Dodecanese, Greece, in the Aegean Sea.
3. A city on the island of Rhodes and the capital of the Dodecanese.
4. A French town situated in Moselle department, Lorraine
5. An electric piano

Derived terms

• Colossus of Rhodes

Translations

island

• Albanian: Rhodos
• Arabic: رُودُس (rūdus)
• Armenian: Հռոդոս (Hṙodos)
• Basque: Rodas
• Belarusian: Родас (Ródas)
• Bulgarian: Родос m (Rodos)
• Catalan: Rodes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅得島／罗得岛 (zh) (Luódé Dǎo), 罗得岛 (zh) (Luódé Dǎo)

• Czech: Rhodos (cs) m
• Danish: Rhodos
• Dutch: Rodos
• Esperanto: Rodoso
• Estonian: Rhodos
• Finnish: Rodos
• French: Rhodes (fr) f

  Middle French: Roddes

• Galician: Rodas f
• Georgian: როდოსი (rodosi)
• German: Rhodos
• Greek: Ρόδος (el) f (Ródos)
• Hebrew: רודוס (rodos)
• Hungarian: Rhodosz
• Irish: Ródas
• Italian: Rodi f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ロードス島 (Rōdosu-tō)
• Korean: 로도스 섬 (rodoseu seom)
• Latin: Rhodus (la) f, Rhodos f
• Latvian: Roda f
• Lithuanian: Rodas m
• Macedonian: Родос (Rodos)
• Maltese: Rodì
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Rhodos

  Nynorsk: Ródos

• Persian: رودس
• Polish: Rodos (pl) f
• Portuguese: Rodes (pt) f
• Romanian: Rodos
• Russian: Ро́дос (ru) m (Ródos)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Родос m

  Roman: Rodos m

• Slovak: Rodos
• Slovene: Rodos (sl)
• Spanish: Rodas (es) m
• Swedish: Rhodos
• Turkish: Rodos
• Ukrainian: Родос m (Rodos)
• Vietnamese: Rhodes

capital of the Dodecanese

• Armenian: Հռոդոս (Hṙodos)
• Finnish: Rodos
• French: Rhodes (fr)
• German: Rhodos
• Greek: Ρόδος (el) f (Ródos)
• Hungarian: Rhodosz
• Italian: Rodi f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ロードス市 (Rōdosu-shi)
• Latin: Rhodus (la) f, Rhodos f
• Portuguese: Rodes (pt) f
• Russian: Ро́дос (ru) m (Ródos)
• Spanish: Rodas (es) m
• Turkish: Rodos

Anagrams

• Rohdes, dehors, hordes, horsed, reshod, shoder, shored

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔd/

Proper noun

Rhodes ?

1. Rhodes (island)
2. Rhodes (town)

Anagrams

• dehors

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Rhodes f

1. Obsolete spelling of Rodes.