rho

See also: Rho and rhô

English

Ancient Greek Alphabet

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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

Noun

rho ‎(plural rhos)

1. The name for the seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.

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, f
• French: rhô (fr) m
• German: Rho (de) n
• Greek: ρο (el) n ‎(ro)

• Hebrew: רוֹ f ‎(ro)
• Interlingua: rho
• Japanese: ロー (ja) ‎(rō)
• Korean: 로 (ko) ‎(ro)
• Malay: ro
• Portuguese: rô (pt) m
• Russian: ро (ru) n ‎(ro)
• Spanish: ro (es) f, rho f
• Swedish: rho (sv)

Anagrams

• 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): /rɔ/, [r̺ɔ]
• Hyphenation: rò

Noun

Wikipedia ^it

rho m, f ‎(invariable)

1. rho (Greek letter)

Derived terms

• rotacismo

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro/

Noun

rho f ‎(plural rhos)

1. rho; the Greek letter Ρ, ρ

Synonyms

• 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. (literary) 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.