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单词 Alexander
释义

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): [ˌæ.lɨɡˈzæn.dɚ]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˌa.lɨɡˈzɑːn.də]
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (æ-tensing, rhotic) IPA(key): [ˌæ.lɨɡˈzeən.dɚ]
  • (æ-tensing, non-rhotic) IPA(key): [ˌæ.lɨɡˈzeən.də]
  • Hyphenation: Al‧ex‧an‧der
  • Rhymes: -ɑːndə(ɹ), -ændə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Alexander (plural Alexanders)

  1. 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 606515358, [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.
  2. A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic, anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Mac Alasdair (“son of Alexander”).
  3. A place in the United States.
    1. A city in Arkansas.
    2. A city in Iowa.
    3. A city in Kansas; named for early settler Alexander Harvey.
    4. A city in North Dakota; named for early North Dakota politician Alexander McKenzie.
    5. A town in Maine; named for British politician and financier Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton.
    6. A town and village New York; named for early settler Alexander Rea.
    7. An unincorporatedcommunity in Georgia; named for early settler Hugh Alexander.
    8. An unincorporatedcommunity in West Virginia; named for local lumber businessman John M. Alexander.
  4. A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
  5. A community in Manitoba, Canada; named for early settler Alexander Speers.

Derived terms

  • Al
  • Alec
  • Aleck
  • Alex
  • Alexander beetle (Megadromus antarcticus)
  • Alexander County
  • Alexander horned ball
  • Alexander horned sphere
  • Alistair
  • Lex
  • Sandro
  • Sandy
  • Sasha
  • Xan
  • Xander
  • Alexandra and its variants
  • shorter forms such as Alex, Sandy or Xander

Translations

Noun

Alexander (plural Alexanders)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of alexander

Danish

Proper noun

Alexander

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander
  • (male given names:) Alex
  • (female forms:) Alexandra, Sandra, Sascha

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).

Proper noun

Alexander m

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander
  • Alexandra
  • Sander

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˌalɛˈksandɐ]
  • Audio (Austria)(file)
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: A‧le‧xan‧der

Proper noun

Alexander

  1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Alexandra or Sandra, equivalent to English Alexander; diminutive forms Alex, Sandro, Sascha

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒlɛksɒndɛr]
  • Hyphenation: Ale‧xan‧der
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Proper noun

Alexander

  1. a male given name

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singularplural
nominativeAlexanderAlexanderek
accusativeAlexandertAlexandereket
dativeAlexandernekAlexandereknek
instrumentalAlexanderrelAlexanderekkel
causal-finalAlexanderértAlexanderekért
translativeAlexanderréAlexanderekké
terminativeAlexanderigAlexanderekig
essive-formalAlexanderkéntAlexanderekként
essive-modal——
inessiveAlexanderbenAlexanderekben
superessiveAlexanderenAlexandereken
adessiveAlexandernélAlexandereknél
illativeAlexanderbeAlexanderekbe
sublativeAlexanderreAlexanderekre
allativeAlexanderhezAlexanderekhez
elativeAlexanderbőlAlexanderekből
delativeAlexanderrőlAlexanderekről
ablativeAlexandertőlAlexanderektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular		AlexanderéAlexandereké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		AlexanderéiAlexanderekéi
Possessive forms of Alexander
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.AlexanderemAlexandereim
2nd person sing.AlexanderedAlexandereid
3rd person sing.AlexandereAlexanderei
1st person pluralAlexanderünkAlexandereink
2nd person pluralAlexanderetekAlexandereitek
3rd person pluralAlexanderükAlexandereik

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːlɛksantɛ(ː)r/

Proper noun

Alexander m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander

Declension

declension of Alexander
m-s1singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativeAlexanderAlexanderinnAlexanderarAlexanderarnir
accusativeAlexanderAlexanderinnAlexanderaAlexanderana
dativeAlexanderAlexandernumAlexanderumAlexanderunum
genitiveAlexandersAlexandersinsAlexanderaAlexanderanna
  • variants: Alex
  • female forms: Alexandra, Sandra

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]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.lekˈsan.der/, [äleɡˈzän̪d̪er]

Proper noun

Alexander m (genitive Alexandrī); second declension

  1. A masculine praenomen.

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

CaseSingularPlural
NominativeAlexanderAlexandrī
GenitiveAlexandrīAlexandrōrum
DativeAlexandrōAlexandrīs
AccusativeAlexandrumAlexandrōs
AblativeAlexandrōAlexandrīs
VocativeAlexanderAlexandrī

Descendants

  • Corsican: Lisandru
  • Emilian: Alessander
    • ⇒ Emilian: Alesànder
  • Italian: Alessandro
    • Sicilian: Alissantru
  • 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, Alexandro
      • → 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: Lisciànniru
  • Venetian: Lisandru
  • → Albanian: Aleksandër
  • → Alemannic German: Alexander
    • ⇒ Alemannic German: Xandi
  • → Aromanian: Alexandru
  • → Basque: Alesander
  • → Bengali: আলেকজান্ডার (alekôjanḍar)
  • → Dutch: Alexander
    • Afrikaans: Alexander
  • → English: Alexander
    • Jamaican Creole: Aligzanda
    • → Chinese:
      Cantonese: 亞歷山大 (aa3 lik6 saan1 daai6)
      Mandarin: 亞歷山大／亚历山大 (Yàlìshāndà)
      Min Dong: 亞歷山大 (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

References

  • “Alexander”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian

Alternative forms

  • Aleksander

Proper noun

Alexander

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander
  • (male given names:) Sander
  • (female names:) Alexandra, Sandra

References

  • Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 9 615 males with the given name Alexander living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Alexander. Doublet of Alexandre and Alessandro.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.lekˈsɐ̃.deʁ/ [a.lekˈsɐ̃.deh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.lekˈsɐ̃.deɾ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.lekˈsɐ̃.deʁ/ [a.lekˈsɐ̃.deχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.lekˈsɐ̃.deɻ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.lɨˈksɐ̃.dɛɾ/

Proper noun

Alexander m

  1. a male given name
  • Alex

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈalɛksandər]

Proper noun

Alexander

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander

Derived terms

  • (diminutive) Aleck, Eck, Eckie, Sandy, Saundy, Sawnie, Sawney, Sanders, Saunders, Sannock, Sannag, Sannagie

See also

  • Elshinder
  • Elshinner
  • Alistair

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalɛksandɛr/

Proper noun

Alexander m (genitive singular Alexandra, nominative plural Alexandrovia, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander

Declension

Declension of Alexander
singularplural
nominativeAlexanderAlexandrovia
genitiveAlexandraAlexandrov
dativeAlexandroviAlexandrom
accusativeAlexandraAlexandrov
locativeAlexandroviAlexandroch
instrumentalAlexandromAlexandrami

Further reading

  • Alexander in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Etymology

Equivalent to English Alexander. First recorded in Sweden (Scania) in 1201.

Proper noun

Alexander c (genitive Alexanders)

  1. a male given name
  • (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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