ῥῶ (rho)

ῥῶ is an Ancient Greek form of ῥόος, meaning “stream, current”.

It can also be a form of ῥάζω, “snarl”. It is the 1st person singular future active indicative or 3rd person singular future active optative.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.10.112: … σεν, ἵνʼ αὐτὸς αὑτὸν ἐμβάλῃς εἰς Τάρταρον Στίλπωνος οὐ λύσας ἔπη αἰνιγματώδη; τοιγὰρ εὑρέθης Κρόνος ἔξωθε τοῦ ῥῶ κάππα τε. Τῶν δʼ ἀπʼ Εὐκλείδου ἐστὶ καὶ Ἰχθύας Μετάλλου, ἀνὴρ γενναῖος, πρὸς ὃν καὶ Διογένης ὁ κυνικὸς διάλογ …

Euripides, Electra 473: ρῳ δὲ κύτει πύρπνοος ἔ-

Plato, Cratylus 420: ἀλλὰ μὴν ἵμερός γε τῷ μάλιστα ἕλκοντι τὴν ψυχὴν ῥῷ ἐπωνομάσθη· ὅτι γὰρ ἱέμενος ῥεῖ καὶ ἐφιέμενος τῶν πραγμάτων, καὶ οὕτω δὴ ἐπισπᾷ σφόδρα τὴν ψυχὴν διὰ τὴν ἕσιν …

All forms of ῥόος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.