rho

See also: Rho, rhô, and rhɔ

English

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← pi		→ sigma
Ρ ρ Ancient Greek: ῥῶ
Wikipedia article on rho

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: row, roe, Roe, Rowe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

rho (plural rhos)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
2. (finance) The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Derived terms

• Rho factor
• rho meson
• rhotic
• Spearman's rho

Translations

letter of Greek alphabet

• Arabic: رُو‎ m (rū)
• Catalan: ro (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉 (zh) (ròu), 若 (zh) (ruò), 柔 (zh) (róu)

• Dutch: rho m or f
• Esperanto: roto (eo)
• Finnish: rhoo (fi)
• French: rhô (fr) m
• German: Rho (de) n
• Greek: ρο (el) n (ro)

  Ancient: ῥῶ n (rhô)

• Hebrew: רוֹ‎ f (ro)

• Hungarian: ró (hu)
• Interlingua: rho
• Japanese: ロー (ja) (rō)
• Korean: 로 (ko) (ro)
• Latin: rhō (la) n
• Malay: ro
• Maori: rōu
• Polish: rho (pl) n, ro (pl) n
• Portuguese: rô (pt) m
• Russian: ро (ru) n (ro)
• Spanish: ro (es) f, rho f
• Swedish: rho (sv)

Anagrams

• ROH, Roh, hor

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Catalan

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

1. Alternative spelling of ro

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Italian

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ/^*
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: rhò

Noun

rho m or f (invariable)

1. rho (Greek letter)

Derived terms

• rotacismo

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Polish

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô), from Phoenician 𐤓‬‎ (r‬ /rēš/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔ/
• Hyphenation: rho
• Rhymes: -ɔ

Noun

rho n (indeclinable)

1. rho (Greek letter Ρ, ρ)

Further reading

• rho in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈro/, [ˈro]

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

1. rho; the Greek letter Ρ, ρ

   Synonym: ro

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• (subjunctive): rhoddo, rhotho
• (imperative): dyro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r̥oː/

Verb

rho

1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of rhoi
2. second-person singular imperative of rhoi

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
rho	ro	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.