Rhone

See also: rhone and Rhône

English

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Rhone

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Rhône

Etymology

From French Rhône.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊn

Proper noun

Rhone

2. A major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea.

Translations

river

Alemannic German: Rotten (Walser) Armenian: Ռոն (Ṙon) Bulgarian: Ро́на f (Róna) Catalan: Roine m Esperanto: Rodano Finnish: Rhône (fi) Franco-Provençal: Rôno French: Rhône (fr) m Georgian: რონა (rona) German: Rhone (de) f Greek: Ροδανός (el) m (Rodanós) Ancient: Ῥοδανός m (Rhodanós) Hungarian: Rhône (hu) Italian: Rodano m Japanese: ローヌ川 (Rōnugawa) Kashubian: Rodan m pl Latin: Rhodanus (la) m Lithuanian: Rona Lombard: Ròden Neapolitan: Rodano Norwegian: Bokmål: Rhône Occitan: Ròse (oc) Ottoman Turkish: رون (Ron) Piedmontese: Ròno Polish: Rodan (pl) m Portuguese: Ródano m Russian: Ро́на (Róna) Sicilian: Ròdanu m Spanish: Ródano (es) m

Anagrams

• Heron, Honer, Horne, heron, honer, horne

German

Alternative forms

• Rhône (sometimes Switzerland, otherwise uncommon), Rhosne, Rone, Rosne (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French Rho(s)ne. 16th century or earlier. Partially displaced older Rotten, which see. All ultimately from Latin Rhodanus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁoːnə/, /ʁoːn/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Rho‧ne

Proper noun

die Rhone f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Rhone)

1. Rhone, Rhône (a major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea)

   Synonym: (now restricted to the Swiss portion) Rotten m

Declension

Declension of Rhone [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Rhone
genitive	einer	der	Rhone
dative	einer	der	Rhone
accusative	eine	die	Rhone

Further reading

• Rhone on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Rhone” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rhone” in Duden online
• “Rhone” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon