Alexander
See also: alexander
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Doublet of Alejandro.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌælɪɡˈzændɚ/
- (æ-tensing, rhotic) IPA(key): [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndɚ]
- (æ-tensing, non-rhotic) IPA(key): [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndə]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌalɪɡˈzɑːndə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Hyphenation: Al‧ex‧an‧der
- Rhymes: -ɑːndə(ɹ), -ændə(ɹ)
Proper noun
Alexander (plural Alexanders)
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, most famously held by Alexander the Great.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
- 1765, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Book IV, Chapter 18:
- And for my own part, said my uncle Toby, though I should blush to boast of myself, Trim - yet had my name been Alexander, I could have done no more at Namur than my duty.
- 1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, →ISBN, page 170:
- "My son's name is Alexander," Muriel said. "Did I tell you that? I named him Alexander because it sounded high-class.
- A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic, anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Mac Alasdair (“son of Alexander”).
- A place in the United States:
- A city in Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Georgia; named for early settler Hugh Alexander.
- A city in Iowa.
- A minor city in Rush County, Kansas; named for early settler Alexander Harvey.
- A town in Maine; named for British politician and financier Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton.
- A town and village therein, in Genesee County, New York; named for early settler Alexander Rea.
- A city in North Dakota; named for early North Dakota politician Alexander McKenzie.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for local lumber businessman John M. Alexander.
- A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
- A community in Manitoba, Canada; named for early settler Alexander Speers.
Derived terms
Translations
male given name
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Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈalɛksandr̩]
Declension
Declension of Alexander (hard masculine animate mixed-reducible)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Alexander | Alexanderové, Alexandrové |
| genitive | Alexandera, Alexandra | Alexanderů, Alexandrů |
| dative | Alexanderovi, Alexanderu, Alexandrovi, Alexandru | Alexanderům, Alexandrům |
| accusative | Alexandera, Alexandra | Alexandery, Alexandry |
| vocative | Alexandere, Alexandře | Alexanderové, Alexandrové |
| locative | Alexanderovi, Alexanderu, Alexandrovi, Alexandru | Alexanderech, Alexandrech |
| instrumental | Alexanderem, Alexandrem | Alexandery, Alexandry |
Danish
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˌalɛˈksandɐ]
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file) - Hyphenation: A‧le‧xan‧der
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɒlɛksɒndɛr]
- Hyphenation: Ale‧xan‧der
- Rhymes: -ɛr
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Alexander | Alexanderek |
| accusative | Alexandert | Alexandereket |
| dative | Alexandernek | Alexandereknek |
| instrumental | Alexanderrel | Alexanderekkel |
| causal-final | Alexanderért | Alexanderekért |
| translative | Alexanderré | Alexanderekké |
| terminative | Alexanderig | Alexanderekig |
| essive-formal | Alexanderként | Alexanderekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Alexanderben | Alexanderekben |
| superessive | Alexanderen | Alexandereken |
| adessive | Alexandernél | Alexandereknél |
| illative | Alexanderbe | Alexanderekbe |
| sublative | Alexanderre | Alexanderekre |
| allative | Alexanderhez | Alexanderekhez |
| elative | Alexanderből | Alexanderekből |
| delative | Alexanderről | Alexanderekről |
| ablative | Alexandertől | Alexanderektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Alexanderé | Alexandereké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Alexanderéi | Alexanderekéi |
| Possessive forms of Alexander | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Alexanderem | Alexandereim |
| 2nd person sing. | Alexandered | Alexandereid |
| 3rd person sing. | Alexandere | Alexanderei |
| 1st person plural | Alexanderünk | Alexandereink |
| 2nd person plural | Alexanderetek | Alexandereitek |
| 3rd person plural | Alexanderük | Alexandereik |
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaːlɛksantɛ(ː)r/
Declension
declension of Alexander
| m-s1 | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | Alexander | Alexanderinn | Alexanderar | Alexanderarnir |
| accusative | Alexander | Alexanderinn | Alexandera | Alexanderana |
| dative | Alexander | Alexandernum | Alexanderum | Alexanderunum |
| genitive | Alexanders | Alexandersins | Alexandera | Alexanderanna |
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρός (andrós, genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.lekˈsan.der/, [äɫ̪ɛkˈs̠än̪d̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.lekˈsan.der/, [äleɡˈzän̪d̪er]
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Descendants
- Corsican: Lisandru
- Emilian: Alessander
- ⇒ Emilian: Alesànder
- Italian: Alessandro
- Sicilian: Alissantru
- Ligurian: Lusciandro
- Lombard: Lissander
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Asturian: Aleixandre
- Neapolitan: Alessandro
- Old French: Alixandre
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: Alexandru
- Extremaduran: Alejandru
- Mirandese: Alxandre
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Spanish:
- Piedmontese: Lissànder
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: Lissandri
- Sardinian: Lisandru
- Sicilian: Lisciànniru
- Venetian: Lisandru
- → Albanian: Aleksandër
- → Alemannic German: Alexander
- ⇒ Alemannic German: Xandi
- → Aromanian: Alexandru
- → Basque: Alesander
- → Bengali: আলেকজান্ডার (alekojanḍar)
- → Dutch: Alexander
- Afrikaans: Alexander
- → English: Alexander
- → 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: Aleksándras
- → Livvi: Aleksanderi
- → Low German: Alexander
- → North Frisian: Alexander
- → Norwegian: Alexander, Aleksander
- → Old Danish: Alexander
- Danish: Aleksander, Alexander
- → Greenlandic: Alegsantere, Alassanteri, Aleksantare, Alexandari
- Danish: Aleksander, Alexander
- → Old Irish: Alaxander
- → 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
References
- “Alexander”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian
Alternative forms
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Alexander. Doublet of Alexandre and Alessandro.
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈalɛksandɛr/
Proper noun
Alexander m anim (genitive singular Alexandra, nominative plural Alexandrovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander
Declension
Declension of Alexander
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Alexander | Alexandrovia |
| genitive | Alexandra | Alexandrov |
| dative | Alexandrovi | Alexandrom |
| accusative | Alexandra | Alexandrov |
| locative | Alexandrovi | Alexandroch |
| instrumental | Alexandrom | Alexandrami |
Further reading
- “Alexander”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aleɡˈsandeɾ/ [a.leɣ̞ˈsãn̪.d̪eɾ]
- Rhymes: -andeɾ
- Syllabification: A‧le‧xan‧der
- IPA(key): /alɪɡˈseəndɚ/ [alɪɣ̞ˈseən̪d̪ɚ]
- Rhymes: -eəndɚ
- IPA(key): /ˈælɪɡseəndɚ/ [ˈælɪɣ̞seən̪d̪ɚ]
- Rhymes: -eəndɚ
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Related terms
- (male given names) Alex
- (female names) Alexandra, Sandra
- (surnames) Alexandersson
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 70 150 males with the given name Alexander living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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