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The Rhône (; (フランス語:Le Rhône), ; (ドイツ語:Rhone) (:ˈʁoːnə); Walliser German: ''Rotten''; (イタリア語:Rodano) (:ˈrɔːdano); ; (オック語:Ròse)) is one of the major rivers of Europe, rising in Switzerland, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France. At Arles, near its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea, the river divides into two branches, known as the Great Rhône (French: ''Le Grand Rhône'') and the Little Rhône (''Le Petit Rhône''). The resulting delta constitutes the Camargue region. ==Name== The name ''Rhône'' continues the name ''Rhodanus'' (Greek ''Rhodanos'') in Greco-Roman geography. The Gaulish name of the river was '' *Rodonos'' or '' *Rotonos'' (from a PIE root '' *ret-'' "to run, roll" frequently found in river names). The Greco-Roman as well as the reconstructed Gaulish name is masculine, as is French ''le Rhône''. This form survives in the Italian namesake, ''Rodano''. German has adopted the French name but given it the feminine gender, ''die Rhone''. The original German adoption of the Latin name was also masculine, ''der Rotten''; it survives only in the Upper Valais (dialectal ''Rottu''). In French, the adjective derived from the river is ''rhodanien'', as in ''le sillon rhodanien'' (literally "the furrow of the Rhône"), which is the name of the long, straight Saône and Rhône river valleys, a deep cleft running due south to the Mediterranean and separating the Alps from the Massif Central. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhône」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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