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Gender Feminine
Usage Old Persian (Hellenized)
Scripts Ῥοδογούνη(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsVṛda-gaunā, Rhodogoúnē, Rhodugune, Rodogune
Meaning & History
From Ῥοδογούνη (Rhodogoune), a hellenization of the Old Persian name *Vṛda-gaunā meaning "rose-coloured, rosy-complexioned" (compare Sogdian warδγōn "rosy" and Persian gulgūn "rose-coloured", both thought to be cognates), apparently altered through association with Greek ῥόδον (rhodon) "rose". This name was borne by several Achaemenid princesses. It was also borne by a 2nd-century BC Parthian princess who married the Seleucid king Demetrius II Nicator - the basis for the title heroine of Pierre Corneille's 1645 tragedy Rodogune.