ῥῶ

See also: ρω, ῥώ, and ῥῷ

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): /ˈro/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈro/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈro/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈro/

Noun

ῥῶ • (rhô) n (indeclinable)

rho, the name for the seventeenth letter Ρ (R), ρ (r) 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