rho

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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

Noun

rho (plural rhos)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
   • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 25:

     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 – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.

2. (finance) The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.

Anagrams

• hor, ROH, HRO, Roh, orh

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

1. Alternative spelling of ro

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roː/

• Audio:

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Noun

rho f or m (plural rho's, diminutive rho'tje n)

1. rho (letter of the Greek alphabet)

Further reading

• rho on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rho m or f (invariable)

1. rho (Greek letter)

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô), from Phoenician 𐤓 (r‬ /⁠rēš⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: rho

Noun

rho n (indeclinable)

1. rho (Greek letter Ρ, ρ)

Further reading

• rho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

1. rho; the Greek letter Ρ, ρ

   Synonym: ro

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r̥oː/

Verb

rho

1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of rhoi
2. second-person singular imperative of rhoi

Mutation