Gender Masculine Usage Late Greek (Latinized) Scripts Ἐλπίδιος(Ancient Greek) Meaning & History Latinized form of the Greek name Ἐλπίδιος (Elpidios), which was derived from ἐλπίς (elpis) meaning "hope". This was the name of a 4th-century saint who spent twenty years in a cave in Cappadocia.