Rod

Abbreviated form of Rodney and of Roderick, both with roots originating from Germanic *hrōþiz (“fame”).

Rod

1. A nickname for the male given names Rodney and Roderick.
   • 2025 February 10, Michael Williams, “Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office.

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *rȍdъ.

Rod

1. The god of the family, ancestors and fate in Slavic mythology.

• dor, ODR, d'or, Ord, DOR, D. Or., ord, Dor., DRO, Dor, ORD, dro, RDO

From rod.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrot]

Rod m anim (female equivalent Rodová)

1. a male surname

Rod m anim

1. (Slavic mythology) Rod

• “Rod”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
• Moldanová, Dobrava (2019) Naše příjmení [Our surnames] (in Czech), 5th edition, Prague: Agentura Pankrác, →ISBN, page 156

• root (Wiesemann spelling system)

From the adjective rod, from Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /roːt/

Rod ? (plural Rode)

1. the color red

• weinrod, Weinrod

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From rod.

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Rod m

1. a village in Tilișca, Sibiu County, Romania

• IPA^(key): /rôd/

Rȍd m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling Ро̏д)

1. Rhodes

• “Rod”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025