[Meaning] one who/which is famous.
*bei/dios: o( e)/ndocos.
Same entry, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. In other lexica the plural
beidioi is registered as a Laconian dialect word, for officials of some kind. Not in LSJ as that form, but see the LSJ entry on
bidiai=oi (other forms
bi/deoi and
bi/duoi), glossed as "officers at
Sparta, whose duties were connected with the charge of the the ephebi"; five in
Pausanias, six in inscriptions. This is derived from *
widuios, with
beta representing
w-. Perhaps the Suda's adjective is from the same root, with the meaning "conspicuous."
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2 (Paris 2009), s.v. bi/duos (p. 167)
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