rho

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See also: Rho, rhô, and rhɔ

English

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rho (plural rhos)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
    • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 25:
      Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.
  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)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

  1. Alternative spelling of ro

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

Noun

rho f or m (plural rho's, diminutive rho'tje n)

  1. rho (letter of the Greek alphabet)

Further reading

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

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

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rho n (indeclinable)

  1. rho (Greek letter Ρ, ρ)

Further reading

  • rho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈro/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: rho

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

  1. rho; the Greek letter Ρ, ρ
    Synonym: ro

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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.
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