Ῥόδος

See also: Ρόδος

Ancient Greek

Three possibilities are:

Pre-Greek name - see Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd, “snake”), a reference to the serpents that had supposedly inhabited the land in ancient times.[1]
From ῥόα (rhóa, “pomegranate”).
From ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

Ῥόδος • (Rhódos) f (genitive Ῥόδου); second declension

Second declension of ἡ Ῥόδος; τῆς Ῥόδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῥόδος hē Rhódos
Genitive	τῆς Ῥόδου tês Rhódou
Dative	τῇ Ῥόδῳ têi Rhódōi
Accusative	τὴν Ῥόδον tḕn Rhódon
Vocative	Ῥόδε Rhóde
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“Ῥόδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ῥόδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Ῥόδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
“Ῥόδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G4499 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024

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