rho
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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)
- 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.
- (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
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Catalan
Dutch
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /roː/
Audio (file)
Further reading
rho on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɔ/*
- Rhymes: -ɔ
- Hyphenation: rhò
Derived terms
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô), from Phoenician 𐤓 (r /rēš/).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ
- Syllabification: rho
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
Welsh
Alternative forms
- (subjunctive): rhoddo, rhotho
- (imperative): dyro
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥oː/
Verb
rho
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