Gender Masculine Usage Ancient Greek (Latinized) Scripts Διόδωρος(Ancient Greek) Meaning & History Latinized form of the Greek name Διόδωρος (Diodoros) meaning "gift of Zeus", derived from the elements Διός (Dios) meaning "of ZEUS" and δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift". This was the name of a 1st-century BC Greek historian.