Ἀλέξανδρος

See also: Αλέξανδρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀλέξω (aléxō, “to repel”) +‎ ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), thus “the man who repels [enemies]”.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.lék.san.dros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈlɛk.san.dros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈlek.san.dros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈlek.san.dros/
(15^th 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

Second declension of ὁ Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος; τοῦ Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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

Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρειᾰ (Alexándreia)
Ᾰ̓λεξᾰνδρέττᾰ (Alexandrétta)
Ᾰ̓λεξᾰνδρῐ́ζω (Alexandrízō)
Ᾰ̓λεξᾰνδρῐστής (Alexandristḗs)
Ᾰ̓λεξᾰνδροκόλᾰξ (Alexandrokólax)
Ᾰ̓λεξᾰνδρώδης (Alexandrṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: Αλέξανδρος (Aléxandros)
→ Albanian: Aleksandri
→ Arabic: إِسْكَنْدَر‎ (ʾiskandar)
- → Amharic: እስክንድር (ʾəskndər)
- → Kurdish: Îskenderê
- → Madurese: ꦲꦶꦱ꧀ꦏꦤ꧀ꦢꦂ (iskandar)
- → Malay: Iskandar
  - Indonesian: Iskandar
- → Cheke Holo: Iskandal
- → Persian: اسكندر‎ (Eskandar), سكندر‎ (Sekandar)
  - → Bashkir: Искәндәр (Iskändär)
  - → Hindustani:
    Hindi: सिकन्दर (sikandar), सिकंदर (sikandar)
    
    Urdu: سِکندر‎ (sikandar)
  - → Pashto: سکندر‎ (sikandar)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: اسكندر‎ (İskender)
    - Turkish: İskender
    - → Albanian: Skënder
    - → Azerbaijani: İsgəndər
    - → Karakalpak: İskender
    - → Tatar: İskändär
    - → Turkmen: Isgender
    - → Uyghur: ئىسكەندەر‎‎ (iskender‎)
    - → Zazaki: İskendero
  - → Uzbek: Iskandar
→ Armenian: Ալեքսանդր (Alekʿsandr)
→ Gagauz: Aleksandri
→ Georgian: ალექსანდრე (aleksandre)
→ Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌿𐍃 (alaiksandrus)
→ Japanese: アレクサンドロス (Arekusandorosu)
→ Latin: Alexander
- Corsican: Lisandru
- Emilian: Alessander
  - ⇒ Emilian: Alesànder
- Italian: Alessandro
- Ligurian: Lusciandro
- Lombard: Lissander
- Navarro-Aragonese:
  - Asturian: Aleixandre
- Neapolitan: Alessandro
- Old French: Alixandre
  - French: Alexandre
    - → Breton: Aleksandr, Alesant
  - Norman: Alexandre
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: Alexandru
  - Extremaduran: Alejandru
  - Mirandese: Alxandre
- Old Occitan:
  - Catalan: Alexandre
  - Occitan: Alexandre
- Old Portuguese:
  - Galician: Alexandre
  - Portuguese: Alexandre
    - → Vietnamese: Alexanđê
- Old Spanish:
  - Ladino: Aleksandro
  - Spanish: Alejandro, Alexandro
    - → Basque: Alexandro
    - → Cebuano: Alejandro
    - → English: Alejandro
    - → Ilocano: Alehandro
    - → Tagalog: Alejandro
    - → Waray-Waray: Alejandro
- Piedmontese: Lissànder
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Friulian: Lissandri
- Sardinian: Lisandru
- Sicilian: Alissandru, Alessandru, Lissandru
- Venetian: Lisandru
- → Albanian: Aleksandër
- → Alemannic German: Alexander
  - ⇒ Alemannic German: Xandi
- → Aromanian: Alexandru
- → Basque: Alesander
- → Bengali: আলেকজান্ডার (alekjanḍar)
- → Dutch: Alexander
  - Afrikaans: Alexander
- → English: Alexander
  - Jamaican Creole: Aligzanda
  - → Chinese:
    Cantonese: 亞歷山大 (aa3 lik6 saan1 daai6)
    Mandarin: 亞歷山大 (Yàlìshāndà)
    Min Dong: Ā-lĭk-săng-dâi
    - → Vietnamese: A Lịch Sơn
  - → Hawaiian: Alekanekelo
- → Estonian: Aleksander
- → Faroese: Aleksandur, Alexandur
- → Finnish: Aleksanteri
- → German: Alexander
- → Hebrew: אלכסנדר‎ (aleksánder)
- → Hungarian: Alexander
  - ⇒ Hungarian: Sándor
- → Icelandic: Alexander
- → Korean: 알렉산더 (Alleksandeo)
- → Latvian: Aleksandrs
- → Limburgish: Alexander
- → Lithuanian: Aleksandras
- → Livvi: Aleksanderi
- → Low German: Alexander
- → North Frisian: Alexander
- → Norwegian: Alexander, Aleksander
- → Old Danish: Alexander
  - Danish: Aleksander, Alexander
    - → Greenlandic: Alegsantere, Alassanteri, Aleksantare, Alexandari
- → Old Irish: Alaxander
  - Irish: Alastar
  - Manx: Alistair, Alister, Ollister
  - Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair
    - → English: Alastair, Alistair, Allistair, Allistaire, Allister
    - → Scots: Alistair
- → Old Swedish: Alesant, Alefant, Alexander, Alesantar, Alinsant, Alinsanter, Allexander, Allexandher, Halsand
  - Swedish: Alexander, Aleksander
- → Polish: Aleksander
- → Romanian: Alexandru
- → Samogitian: Aleksėndra
- → Scots: Elshinder, Elshinner
- → Silesian: Aleksander
- → Slovene: Aleksander
- → Saterland Frisian: Alexander
- → Swedish: Alexander
- → Thai: อเล็กซานเดอร์ (alèksaanáde)
- → Uzbek: Aleksandr
- → Veps: Alexandr
- → Võro: Aleksandri
- → Welsh: Alecsander
- → West Frisian: Aleksander
- → Yiddish: אַלעקסאַנדער‎‎ (aleksander‎)
- → Zealandic: Alexander
- → Zhuang: Ahlijsanda
→ Middle Persian:
Manichaean: [Manichaean needed] (ʾlxsyndr)

Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlksndl)
→ Old Church Slavonic: Алеѯандръ (Aleksandrŭ)
- Bulgarian: Алeксандър (Aleksandǎr)
- Macedonian: Александар (Aleksandar)
- → Czech: Aleksandr
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: Александар
  
  Latin: Aleksandar
- → Slovak: Alexander
- → Old East Slavic: Олександръ (Oleksandrŭ)
  - Belarusian: Аляксандр (Aljaksandr)
  - Ukrainian: Олександр (Oleksandr)
- → Russian: Александр (Aleksandr)
  - → Latvian: Aleksandrs
  - → Mongolian: Александр (Aleksandr)
- → Ukrainian: Александр (Aleksandr)