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ELPIDIUS

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Late Roman

Late Latin form of the Greek name Ελπιδιος (Elpidios), which was derived from ελπις (elpis) "hope". This was the name of a 4th-century saint who spent twenty years in a cave in Cappadocia.
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