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The meaning of this name is actually "son of Herodes", for it contains the Greek patronymic suffix -ίων (-ion):
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%AF%CF%89%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek
(in English)
If this name were a diminutive of Herodes, then it would have been written as Ἡρῳδίον or Ἡρωδίον in Greek, in accordance with the Greek diminutive suffix -ίον (-ion):
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek
(in English)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diminutives_by_language#Ancient_Greek
(in English)
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12/11/2020
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%AF%CF%89%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek (in English)
If this name were a diminutive of Herodes, then it would have been written as Ἡρῳδίον or Ἡρωδίον in Greek, in accordance with the Greek diminutive suffix -ίον (-ion):
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek (in English)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diminutives_by_language#Ancient_Greek (in English)