ῥῶ

Ancient Greek

previous letter πεῖ		following letter σῖγμα
Ρ ρ – English: rho

Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤓 (r‬ /⁠rēš⁠/).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ɔ̂ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ro/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ro/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ro/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ro/

Noun

ῥῶ • (rhô) n (indeclinable)

rho, the name for the seventeenth letter Ρ, ρ of the Ancient Greek alphabet.

Descendants

→ English: rho
Greek: ρο (ro)

References

“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