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In Ancient and Classical Greek, a dasia (δασεῖα) or "rough breathing" mark indicates aspiration—adding an initial "h" sound to the letter.
• The Rule: By convention in polytonic Greek grammar, every word that begins with the letter Rho (ρ) automatically carries a rough breathing mark.
• Pronunciation: Instead of a simple rolled or tapped "r", Ῥ represents an aspirated "r" sound, phonetically transcribed as [rʰ] or [hr] (similar to the English sound footprint in words like "rhapsody" or "rhetoric", which trace their roots back to this exact linguistic feature).
• Appearance: Visually, it places a tiny reversed comma diacritic directly above the top left corner of a standard capital Rho.
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>>18223799 (OP)ancient greek aspirated rho sound
think diarrhea or Rhodes