Ῥοδανός

See also: Ροδανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *Rodonos, *Rotonos, from a Proto-Celtic root similar to *reteti (“to flow, run, roll”). Lambert argues that this could have prefixed a second element akin to the root of the river name Danube, Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”).^[1] Alternatively, possibly from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic *ɸro-dena- (“to flow forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“toward, forward”) and the previously mentioned root.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥o.da.nós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ro.daˈnos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ro.ðaˈnos/

Proper noun

Ῥοδᾰνός • (Rhodănós) m (genitive Ῥοδᾰνοῦ); second declension

Rhone, Rhône (a major river in modern Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ῥοδᾰνός; τοῦ Ῥοδᾰνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥοδᾰνός ho Rhodănós
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥοδᾰνοῦ toû Rhodănoû
Dative	τῷ Ῥοδᾰνῷ tōî Rhodănōî
Accusative	τὸν Ῥοδᾰνόν tòn Rhodănón
Vocative	Ῥοδᾰνέ Rhodăné
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Ροδανός (Rodanós)
Latin: Rhodanus (see there for further descendants)

References

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024

^ Pierre-Yves Lambert, La langue gauloise, Paris, Errance, 1995, 240 p., p. 37