The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromεὐδοκία“satisfied or satisfying one”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΕὐδοκία
- Latin · borrowed fromEudocia
- English todayEudocia
From Latin Eudocia, from Ancient Greek Εὐδοκία (Eudokía), from Ancient Greek εὐδοκία (eudokía, “satisfied or satisfying one”), from εὐδοκέω (eudokéō, “to be well-pleased or well-pleasing”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia: forming adjectives”), from εὐ- (eu-, “eu-: good”) + δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, to be thought, to seem”). Doublet of Evdokia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.