Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Pronounced: AN-dro-kleez
Latinized form of the Greek Ανδροκλης (Androkles) which meant "glory of a man", derived from ανδρος (andros) "of a man" and κλεος (kleos) "glory". This was the name of a man who pulled a thorn from a lion's paw in one of Aesop's fables.