Euclid

Gender Masculine
Scripts Pron. /ˈjuː.klɪd/ (English) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

From the Greek name εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and kleos) meaning "glory" with the patronymic suffix ides) [1] [2] [3] [4] . This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician from Alexandria who made numerous contributions to geometry.

Related Names

Rootseu + kleos + ides
Other Languages & CulturesEuclides (Portuguese)

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  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Εὐκλείδης.
  2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry eu)=, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Deu%29%3D.
  3. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry kle/os, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dkle%2Fos.
  4. Wiktionary, entry -ίδης, available from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82.

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