alt Hacker NewsThe masculine/feminine question of the name Andrea is made weirder by the fact it literally derives from the Greek word for ‘adult male’ (andros)
The masculine/feminine question of the name Andrea is made weirder by the fact it literally derives from the Greek word for ‘adult male’ (andros)
More likely it is not derived directly from "andros", but from the feminine noun "andreia", which means courage or virility.
So the original grammatical gender was feminine, hence the -a termination.