Everyday LifeGreek → English
Eudora
/juːˈdɔːrə/noun
A female given name of Greek origin.
The Greek roots
εὖ
eû
well, good
δῶρον
dôron
gift
Literally: “good gift”
The story of the word
εὖ and δῶρον, well and gift, so a good gift or one well given. The name belongs to a Nereid in Hesiod and to one of the Hyades, the star cluster whose rising told farmers the rains were coming. δῶρον is the same element in Dorothea and Theodora, where the giver is named as god, and in Isidore, where the giver is Isis. Eudora Welty made the name American, and a 1990s mail program borrowed it from her.
- How it travelled
- Ancient Greek → Latin → English
Same family
DorothyTheodoreIsidoreeulogy
In a sentence
Eudora had kept every letter her sister sent from Cairo.
They named the second daughter Eudora after a great-grandmother nobody remembered.