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Where does “Rhodes” come from?

Rhodes comes from French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος, the name of a Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean.

Ancestry of “Rhodes”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchRhodes—
2Latinrhodus—
3Ancient GreekῬόδος—

Words derived from “Rhodes”

  • Rhodesia
  • Rhodesian
  • Rhodian
  • Rhodiot
  • rhodesite
  • Rhodesianness
Every word from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος →