Rhodanian

English

WOTD – 3 March 2017

The Rhône river flowing through Nattages (now Parves-et-Nattages), France

An adaptation of the French rhodanien, Rhodanien with the suffix -ian.

Rhodanian (not comparable)

Of, or aboriginal to, the Rhône valley.
- 2011, Sara B. Pritchard, “Imagining the Nation’s River”, in Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
  As an article in Paris match put it, Donzère-Mondragon [Dam] enabled the "return to old sources [of energy] in order to forge the future," and other journalists emphasized that the CNR's [Compagnie Nationale du Rhône's] "development plan" would "safeguard Rhodanian partimony" for "future generations" and continue to allow traditional activities such as fishing.
- Ibidem, “A New Modern”, page 224:
  Some fishers opposed Brégnier-Cordon because it would destroy several lônes, a specifically Rhodanian term for the small, temporary islands created by the river’s meanders that created especially rich fish habitat.

of or aboriginal to the Rhône valley

Rhodanian (plural Rhodanians)

An inhabitant of the Rhône valley.
- 2011, Sara B. Pritchard, “Envisioning a New Rhône”, in Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
  [Léon Perrier's] regional statism crystallized […] the decades-old conflicts among constituencies in the Rhône valley, and between Parisians and Rhodanians.
- Ibidem, “Rethinking the Nation”, page 179:
  [S]ome communities along the lower Rhône complained that the BRL’s project allowed inland residents to receive “their” water, a grievance that echoed Rhodanians’ objections in the late nineteenth century, when Parisians and northern industrialists had sought access to Rhône-produced electricity.

inhabitant of the Rhône valley