Gender Feminine
Scripts Βαυκίς(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsBaukis
Meaning & History
Derived from Ancient Greek βαυκός (baukos) meaning "delicate, soft; prudish, disdainful, affected". In Greek mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an elderly couple who showed great hospitality to the god Zeus. Baucis was also the name of a Greek poet contemporaneous with Sappho and Erinna whose work is now lost, apostrophized in Erinna's 'Distaff'.