Rhodes

Rhodes

English

Etymology

From French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), of uncertain etymology. Possibilities include a pre-Greek name (cf. Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃‎ (hrʿd), "snake"), ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), and ῥοία (rhoía, “pomegranate”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊdz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊdz/

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• Rhymes: -oʊdz, -əʊdz
• Homophone: roads

Proper noun

Rhodes (countable and uncountable, plural Rhodeses)

1. A surname.

   Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), English imperialist

2. An island in the Dodecanese, Greece, in the Aegean Sea.
3. A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.
4. A small commune in Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
5. A village near Middleton, Rochdale borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8505).
6. A village in northern Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
7. A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
8. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporatedcommunity in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
   2. A minor city in Marshall County, Iowa.
   3. An unincorporatedcommunity in Bentley Township, Gladwin County, Michigan.
   4. A census-designated place in Flathead County, Montana.
9. An electric piano.

Derived terms

• Colossus of Rhodes
• Rhodesia (from the surname)

Translations

island

Albanian: Rhodos Arabic: رُودُس‎ (rūdus) Hijazi Arabic: رودُس‎ (rōdus) Armenian: Հռոդոս (Hṙodos) Basque: Rodas Belarusian: Родас (Ródas) Bulgarian: Родос m (Rodos) Catalan: Rodes m Chinese: Mandarin: 羅得島／罗得岛 (zh) (Luódé Dǎo) Czech: Rhodos (cs) m Danish: Rhodos Dutch: Rodos Esperanto: Rodoso Estonian: Rhodos Finnish: Rodos French: Rhodes (fr) f Middle French: Roddes Galician: Rodas f Georgian: როდოსი (rodosi) German: Rhodos (de) Greek: Ρόδος (el) f (Ródos) Ancient: Ῥόδος f (Rhódos) Hebrew: רודוס‎ (rodos) Hungarian: Rodosz (hu) Irish: Ródas Italian: Rodi f Japanese: ロードス島 (Rōdosu-tō) Korean: 로도스 섬 (rodoseu seom) Ladino: Rodes, Rodi Latin: Rhodus (la) f, Rhodos f Latvian: Roda f Lithuanian: Rodas m Macedonian: Родос (Rodos) Maltese: Rodì Norwegian: Bokmål: Rhodos Nynorsk: Ródos Persian: رودس‎ Polish: Rodos (pl) f Portuguese: Rodes (pt) f Romanian: Rodos Russian: Ро́дос (ru) m (Ródos) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Родос m Roman: Rodos m Slovak: Rodos Slovene: Rodos (sl) Spanish: Rodas (es) m Swedish: Rhodos Turkish: Rodos Ukrainian: Родос m (Rodos) Vietnamese: Rhodes

capital of the Dodecanese

Armenian: Հռոդոս (Hṙodos) Finnish: Rodos French: Rhodes (fr) German: Rhodos (de) Greek: Ρόδος (el) f (Ródos) Hungarian: Rodosz (hu) Italian: Rodi f Japanese: ロードス市 (Rōdosu-shi) Latin: Rhodus (la) f, Rhodos f Portuguese: Rodes (pt) f Russian: Ро́дос (ru) m (Ródos) Spanish: Rodas (es) m Turkish: Rodos

Anagrams

• Rohdes, dehors, hordes, horsed, reshod, shoder, shored

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔd/

Proper noun

Rhodes f

1. Rhodes (island)
2. Rhodes (town)

Anagrams

• dehors

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Rhodes

1. Obsolete spelling of Rodes