ῥοώδης
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ῥόδον
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
rhodon
English translation (word)
rose
Transliteration (Etymon)
rhoōdēs
English translation (etymon)
running violently, falling off
Source
Idem
Ref.
Scholia in Theocritum (vetera) 5.93a
Ed.
K. Wendel, Scholia in Theocritum vetera, Leipzig: Teubner, 1914
Quotation
ῥόδον παρὰ τὸ θᾶττον ἀπορρεῖν· ῥοῶδες γάρ ἐστιν ἤτοι συντόμως φθειρόμενον. ἢ <ἀπὸ τοῦ ῥεῖν> ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ τὴν ὀδμὴν ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄζω
Translation (En)
Rhodon "rose": from the fact it quickly withers, falling off (rhoōdes), that is, quickly dying. Or from the fact that the smell (odmē) <flows (rhein)> from it, or from ozō "to smell"
Parallels
There is no parallel
Modern etymology
Loanword, maybe from Iranian (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has ρόδο as a learned word and many compounds in ροδο-. The usual word is τριανταφυλλο "thirty-petal"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology etymologizing the name of the flower from the fact that it is short-lived. The Greeks established a relationship between the intensity of the smell "flowing" from the rose and its quick withering, the one being the consequence of the other: this can be seen in the compositional etymology given by Plutarch (see ῥόδον / ῥέω + ὀδωδή), "therefore it withers". The etymology by ῥοώδης "flowing violently" condenses both into a single etymon, since ῥοώδης also means "falling"