ῥῶ
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Ancient Greek
[edit] previous letter πεῖ |
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following letter σῖγμα |
Ρ ρ – English: rho |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤓 (r /rēš/).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔ̂ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ro/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ro/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ro/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ro/
Noun
[edit]ῥῶ • (rhô) n (indeclinable)
- rho, the name for the seventeenth letter Ρ, ρ of the Ancient Greek alphabet.
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: ρο (ro)
References
[edit]- “ῥῶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥῶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥῶ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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