![]() That apparently reflected an aspirated or voiceless pronunciation in Ancient Greek, which led to the various Greek-derived English words starting with rh or contain rrh. In polytonic orthography, a rho at the beginning of a word is written with a rough breathing, equivalent to h ( ῥ rh), and a double rho within a word is written with a smooth breathing over the first rho and a rough breathing over the second ( ῤῥ rrh). In both Ancient and Modern Greek, it represents a trilled or tapped r. Rho is classed as a liquid consonant (together with Lambda and sometimes the nasals Mu and Nu), which has important implications for morphology. Its uppercase form uses the same glyph, Ρ, as the distinct Latin letter P the two letters have different Unicode encodings. It is derived from Phoenician letter res. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 100. Rho (uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ or ϱ Greek: ῥῶ) is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. ![]()
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