Ἀλέξανδρος
See also: Αλέξανδρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀλέξω (aléxō, “to repel”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), thus “the man who repels [enemies]”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.lék.san.dros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈlɛk.san.dros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈlek.san.dros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈlek.san.dros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈlek.san.dros/
Proper noun
Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος • (Aléxandros) m (genitive Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρου); second declension
- A title held by Hera and Paris, among others.
- A male given name, equivalent to English Alexander, most famously held by Alexander the Great.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος ho Aléxandros |
τὼ Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρω tṑ Alexándrō |
οἱ Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδροι hoi Aléxandroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρου toû Alexándrou |
τοῖν Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδροιν toîn Alexándroin |
τῶν Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρων tôn Alexándrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρῳ tôi Alexándrōi |
τοῖν Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδροιν toîn Alexándroin |
τοῖς Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδροις toîs Alexándrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρον tòn Aléxandron |
τὼ Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρω tṑ Alexándrō |
τοὺς Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρους toùs Alexándrous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρε Aléxandre |
Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρω Alexándrō |
Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδροι Aléxandroi | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
Terms derived from Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros)
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Descendants
- Albanian: Aleksandri
- Arabic: إِسْكَنْدَر (ʾiskandar)
- Armenian: Ալեքսանդր (Alekʿsandr)
- Asturian: Aleixandre
- Basque: Alexandro
- Belarusian: Аляксандр (Aljaksandr)
- Breton: Aleksandr
- Bulgarian: Алeксандър (Aleksandǎr)
- Catalan: Alexandre
- Corsican: Lisandru
- Czech: Aleksandr
- Danish: Aleksander
- Dutch: Alexander
- English: Alexander
- Estonian: Aleksander
- Finnish: Aleksanteri
- French: Alexandre
- Galician: Alexandre
- Georgian: ალექსანდრე (aleksandre)
- German: Alexander
- Greek: Αλέξανδρος (Aléxandros)
- Hebrew: אלכסנדר
- Hungarian: Sándor
- Icelandic: Alexander
- Irish: Alastar
- Italian: Alessandro
- Japanese: アレクサンドロス (Arekusandorosu)
- Latin: Alexander
- Latvian: Aleksandrs
- Lithuanian: Aleksandras
- Macedonian: Александар (Aleksandar)
- Norwegian: Alexander
- Polish: Aleksander
- Portuguese: Alexandre
- Romanian: Alexandru
- Russian: Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr)
- Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair
- Serbo-Croatian: Алекса́ндар, Aleksándar
- Sicilian: Lissandru
- Slovak: Alexander
- Slovene: Aleksander
- Spanish: Alejandro
- Swedish: Alexander
- Ukrainian: Олександр (Oleksandr)
- Welsh: Alecsander
- West Frisian: Aleksander
Further reading
- Ἀλέξανδρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Ἀλέξανδρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- Ἀλέξανδρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G223 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,000
- Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
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