rho

See also:Rho,rhô,andrhɔ

English

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← pi		→ sigma
Ρρ Ancient Greek:ῥῶ
Wikipedia article on rho

Etymology

From the name of theAncient Greekletterῥῶ(rhô).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ɹəʊ/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ɹoʊ/

• Audio(US):

  (file)

• Homophones:row,roe,Roe,Rowe
• Rhymes:-əʊ

Noun

rho(pluralrhos)

1. The seventeenth letter of theModern GreekandClassicalalphabets and the nineteenth letter ofOldandAncient.
   • 2022,R. F. Kuang,Babel,HarperVoyager,page25:

     Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – arho(Ρ) was not aP,and an eta (Η) was not anH.

2. (finance)The sensitivity of theoptionvalue to therisk-freeinterest rate.

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity):Greeks(includes list of coordinate terms)

Derived terms

• chi-rho
• Pollard's rho algorithm
• Rho factor
• rho meson
• rhotic
• Spearman's rho

Translations

letter of Greek alphabet

• Arabic:رُوm(rū)
• Catalan:ro(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Nhục(zh)(ròu),Nhược(zh)(ruò),Nhu(zh)(róu)

• Dutch:rho(nl)morf
• Esperanto:roto(eo)
• Finnish:rhoo(fi)
• French:rhô(fr)m
• German:Rho(de)n
• Greek:ρο(el)n(ro)

  Ancient:ῥῶn(rhô)

• Hebrew:רוֹf(ro)
• Hungarian:ró(hu)
• Interlingua:rho
• Irish:ró(ga)m
• Japanese:ロー(ja)(rō)
• Korean:로(ko)(ro)
• Latin:rhō(la)n
• Malay:ro(ms)
• Maori:rōu
• Polish:rho(pl)n,ro(pl)n
• Portuguese:rô(pt)m,ró(pt)m
• Russian:ро(ru)n(ro)
• Spanish:ro(es)f,rho(es)f
• Swedish:rho(sv)

Anagrams

• hor,ROH,HRO,Roh,orh

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈro]

Noun

rhof(pluralrhos)

1. Alternative spelling ofro

Dutch

Etymology

FromAncient Greekῥῶ(rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/roː/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

rhoform(pluralrho's,diminutiverho'tjen)

1. rho(letter of the Greek alphabet)

Further reading

• rhoon the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia^nl

Italian

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

From the name of theAncient Greekletterῥῶ(rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈrɔ/^*
• Rhymes:-ɔ
• Hyphenation:rhò

Noun

rhomorf(invariable)

1. rho(Greek letter)

Derived terms

• rotacismo

Polish

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

Learned borrowingfromAncient Greekῥῶ(rhô),fromPhoenician𐤓(r‬/⁠rēš⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈrɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɔ
• Syllabification:rho

Noun

rhon(indeclinable)

1. rho(Greek letter Ρ, ρ)

Further reading

• rhoin Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromAncient Greekῥῶ(rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈro/[ˈro]
• Rhymes:-o
• Syllabification:rho

Noun

rhof(pluralrhos)

1. rho;the Greek letterΡ,ρ

   Synonym:ro

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (subjunctive):rhoddo,rhotho
• (imperative):dyro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/r̥oː/

Verb

rho

1. (literary)third-personsingularsubjunctiveofrhoi
2. second-personsingularimperativeofrhoi

Mutation

Mutated formsofrho

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
rho	ro	unchanged	unchanged

Note:Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.