Given name & surname · also Late Latin
Éloi
“to pick, to choose from”
Éloi is a masculine given name from Late Latin, ultimately from Latin. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Éloi goes back to Latin ēligō, meaning “to pick, to choose from.”
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Where it comes from
Éloi comes from Late Latin, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Late Latin Eligius, from Latin ēligō (“to pick, to choose from”).
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The story
In French use, Éloi has a related form in Héloïse. The history of Héloïse gives this family its wider story. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s novel La Nouvelle Héloïse, published in 1761, helped renew interest in Héloïse in the eighteenth century.
Explained through its name family
Éloi’s family of names
In French usage, Éloi shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form Elwè. In French usage, Éloi has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Eligio. In French usage, Éloi has a conventional equivalent in the English form LOYE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Éloi has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
12 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Heloisederivative · English
- EligioItalian, Spanish
- Eloiborrowing · Catalan, English
- LoyeEnglish
- Elwècognate · Walloon
- Elóiborrowing · Portuguese
- EligiuszPolish
- AlòiOccitan
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People named Éloi
- Éloi MeulenbergBelgian cyclist (1912–1989)
- Eloi Tassinroad bicycle racer (1912–1977)
- Éloi Firmin FéronFrench painter (1802-1876)
- Éloi MachoroNew Caledonian politician (1946–1985)
- Eloi Charlemagne TaupinFrench military officer (1767-1814)
- Éloi Laurent DespeauxFrench military personnel (1761-1856)
- Éloi JohanneauFrench philologist (1770-1851)
- Étienne-Éloi LabarreFrench architect1764–1833
- Éloi RelangeFrench chess playerborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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