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Meaning of Rho | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ɹəʊ

Definitions

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
  2. Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins
  3. A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
  4. The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.

Equivalents

العربية رو
Català ro
Čeština
Deutsch Rho
Ελληνικά ρο
Esperanto roto
Español rho ro
Suomi rhoo
Français rho
Gaeilge
Magyar
Italiano rho
日本語 ロー
한국어
Kurdî ro
Nederlands rho
Polski rho ro
Português
Русский ро
Українська ро

Examples

“Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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