Gender Masculine
Scripts Ἡρῴδης, Ἡρώδης(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

Latin form of Herod, as well as the usual Biblical Greek transcription of Ἡρῴδης: after the classical period, the ι in the sequence ωι (often written as a subscript like ) was not pronounced.

Related Names

Feminine FormHerodias(Biblical Greek)
Other Languages & CulturesHeroides(Ancient Greek) Herod(Biblical)

Categories

Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/publications/vol1/vol1_names/v1mh_u.html.
Entry updated May 29, 2020