Rhodanus

Latin

Alternative forms

• Rodanus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῥοδᾰνός (Rhodănós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʰɔ.da.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.da.nus]

Proper noun

Rhodanus m sg (genitive Rhodanī); second declension

1. Rhone, Rhône (a major river in modern Switzerland and France, which flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean)
2. (metonymic, collectively) the Gaulish tribesmen living on the banks of the Rhône

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Rhodanus
genitive	Rhodanī
dative	Rhodanō
accusative	Rhodanum
ablative	Rhodanō
vocative	Rhodane
locative	Rhodanī

Synonyms

• (dwellers by the Rhône): Rhodanī pōtōrēs (literally “drinkers of the Rhône”)

Related terms

• Rhodanicī
• Rhodanicus
• Rhodanītis
• Rhodanūsia

Descendants

• Aragonese: Roine
• Catalan: Roine
• Franco-Provençal: Rôno
• Old French: Rone, Rosne
  • Middle French: Rhone, Rhosne
    • French: Rhône
    • → Afrikaans: Rhône
    • → Arabic: رون
    • → Belarusian: Рона (Róna)
    • → Breton: Ron
    • → Chuvash: Рона (Rona)
    • → Czech: Rhône
    • → Danish: Rhône
    • → Dutch: Rhône
    • → English: Rhone
    • → Estonian: Rhône
    • → Finnish: Rhône
    • → German: Rhone
    • → Hebrew: רון (ron)
    • → Hungarian: Rhône
    • → Japanese: ローヌ
    • → Korean: 론 (ron)
    • → Latvian: Rona
    • → Lithuanian: Rona
    • → Luxembourgish: Rhône
    • → Norwegian: Rhône
    • → Russian: Рона (Rona)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: Rona, Рона
    • → Slovene: Rona
    • → Swedish: Rhône
    • → Turkish: Rhône
• Galician: Ródano
• Italian: Rodano
• Occitan: Ròse
• Portuguese: Ródano
• Spanish: Ródano
• → Old High German: Rotan
  • Middle High German: Roten
    • Alemannic German: Rotten
    • German: Rotten, (obsolete) Roden, Roten
• → Polish: Rodan

References

• “RHO´DANUS”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Rhŏdănus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Rhŏdănus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,362/3.
• “Rhodanus” on page 1,652/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)