Gender Masculine Usage Greek Mythology (Latinized), Roman Mythology Scripts Εὐρύαλος(Ancient Greek) Meaning & History From Greek Εὐρύαλος (Euryalos) meaning "broad". This name was borne by several figures in Greek legend. In Virgil's Aeneid it belongs to the friend of Nisus, with whom he is killed while raiding the Rutuli.