Ῥόδος

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.[1]
  • From ῥόα (rhóa, “pomegranate”).
  • From ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ῥόδος • (Rhódos) f (genitive Ῥόδου); second declension

  1. Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Ῥόδος; τῆς Ῥόδου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ῥόδος
hē Rhódos
Genitive τῆς Ῥόδου
tês Rhódou
Dative τῇ Ῥόδῳ
tēî Rhódōi
Accusative τὴν Ῥόδον
tḕn Rhódon
Vocative Ῥόδε
Rhóde
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Arabic: رُودُس (rūdus)
  • Armenian: Հռոդոս (Hṙodos)
  • Greek: Ρόδος (Ródos)
  • Hebrew: רודוס (Rodos)
  • Latin: Rhodus, Rhodos
  • Ottoman Turkish: ردوس (Rodos)

References

  1. ^ Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.