• Thumbnail for Rhodon
    Rhodon (French pronunciation: [ʁɔdɔ̃]) is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France. Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department "Répertoire...
    2 KB (78 words) - 08:46, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodonite
    masses with a rose-red color (its name comes from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon) 'rose'), often tending to brown due to surface oxidation. The rose-red...
    6 KB (373 words) - 03:50, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caesarion
    by his mother, with much treasure, into India, by way of Ethiopia. There Rhodon, another tutor like Theodorus, persuaded him to go back, on the ground that...
    18 KB (1,808 words) - 19:30, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rose (color)
    Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from...
    6 KB (635 words) - 17:21, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Greek coinage
    some coins from Rhodes featured a rose, since the Greek word for rose is rhodon. The use of inscriptions on coins also began, usually the name of the issuing...
    32 KB (3,069 words) - 21:14, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Binomial nomenclature
    named by Linnaeus from the Greek word ῥοδόδενδρον, itself derived from rhodon, "rose", and dendron, "tree". Greek words are often converted to a Latinized...
    58 KB (6,686 words) - 05:32, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ross's gull
    the area as a judge. The genus name Rhodostethia is from Ancient Greek rhodon, "rose", and stethos, "breast". The specific rosea is Latin for "rose-coloured"...
    6 KB (688 words) - 23:48, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rose
    from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek ῥόδον rhódon (Aeolic βρόδον wródon), itself borrowed from Old Persian wrd- (wurdi), related...
    34 KB (3,636 words) - 13:55, 4 September 2024
  • the Apostle John was "killed by the Jews". He studied in Alexandria under Rhodon, and was teaching in Side about 405. Later he was a priest in Constantinople...
    2 KB (207 words) - 17:55, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodolite
    Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. The name is derived from the Greek "rhodon" for "rose-like", in common with other pink mineral types (such as rhodochrosite...
    5 KB (420 words) - 20:32, 17 January 2024