Rhodanus

• Rodanus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῥοδᾰνός (Rhodanós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.da.nus/, [ˈrɔd̪änʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.da.nus/, [ˈrɔːd̪änus]

Rhodanus m sg (genitive Rhodanī); second declension

1. the River Rhône (a great river in Gaul, which empties into the Mediterranean)
2. (metonymically, collectively) the Gaulish tribesmen living on the banks of the Rhône

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

• Old Francoprovençal: Róden
• Franco-Provençal: Rhóeno
• Old French: Rosne
  • French: Rhône
• Italian: Rodano

• “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)