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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a Thracian hydronym *Rudupa (“red river”). Compare with river-names in Lithuanian Rùdupė, Rũdupė; Latvian Rudupe; Samogitian Рудупя, Рудупъ.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥o.dó.pɛː/ → /roˈðo.pi/ → /roˈðo.pi/
Proper noun
Ῥοδόπη • (Rhodópē) f (genitive Ῥοδόπης); first declension
- Rhodope, a woman in Greek mythology
- Rhodope Mountains
Inflection
The personal name does not take a definite article.
Descendants
References
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024