Ῥόδος
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See also: Ρόδος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Three possibilities are:
- Pre-Greek name - see Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd, “snake”), a reference to the serpents that had supposedly inhabited the land in ancient times.
- From ῥόα (rhóa, “pomegranate”).
- From ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ó.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈro.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈro.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈro.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈro.ðos/
Proper noun
Ῥόδος • (Rhódos) f (genitive Ῥόδου); second declension
- Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece
Inflection
Derived terms
- Ῥόδιος (Rhódios)
Related terms
- Ῥόδη (Rhódē)
Descendants
- Arabic: رُودُس (rūdus)
- Armenian: Հռոդոս (Hṙodos)
- Greek: Ρόδος (Ródos)
- Hebrew: רודוס (Rodos)
- Latin: Rhodus, Rhodos
- Ottoman Turkish: ردوس (Rodos)
- Turkish: Rodos
References
- ^ Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.
Further reading
- “Ῥόδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ῥόδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ῥόδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Ῥόδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4499 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024