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Rho

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

Españolrhoro
Françaisrho
DeutschRho
17 more languages
العربيةرو
Catalàro
Čeština
Ελληνικάρο
Esperantoroto
Suomirhoo
Gaeilge
Magyar
Italianorho
日本語ロー
한국어
Kurdîro
Nederlandsrho
Polskirhoro
Português
Русскийро
Українськаро

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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