rho

See also: Rho, rhô, and rhɔ

English

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← pi		→ sigma
Ρ ρ Ancient Greek: ῥῶ
Wikipedia article on 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):

  (file)

• 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.

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: رُو m (rū)
• Catalan: ro (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉 (zh) (ròu), 若 (zh) (ruò), 柔 (zh) (róu)

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

  Ancient: ῥῶ n (rhô)

• Hebrew: רוֹ f (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

• ROH, Roh, hor

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

1. Alternative spelling of ro

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roː/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Italian

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)

Derived terms

• rotacismo

Polish

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: rho

Noun

rho n (indeclinable)

1. rho (Greek letter Ρ, ρ)

Further reading

• rho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

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

Welsh

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

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
rho	ro	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.