rho
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 5
- Letters
- 3
/ɹəʊ/
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/ɹəʊ/ · /ɹoʊ/
Definition of rho
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
“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.”
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noun
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The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
“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.”
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- Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins
name
- A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô) English rho From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).
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