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Eudora

/juːˈdɔːrə/noun

A female given name of Greek origin.

The Greek roots

εὖ
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.

Built on the same root

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