Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος • ‎(Aléxandros) m ‎(genitive Ᾰ̓λεξᾰ́νδρου); second declension

1. A title held by Hera and Paris, among others.
2. Alexander, a Greek name, most famously held by Alexander the Great.

Inflection

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Albanian: Aleksandri
• Arabic: إِسْكَنْدَر ‎(ʾiskandar)
  • Indonesian: Iskander
  • Kurdish: Îskenderê
  • Persian: اسكندر ‎(Eskandar), سكندر ‎(Sekandar)
    • Bashkir: Искәндәр ‎(Iskändär)
    • Hindustani:

      Hindi: सिकन्दर ‎(Sikandar), सिकंदर ‎(Sikandar)

      Urdu: سِکندر ‎(Sikandar)

    • Ottoman Turkish: اسكندر ‎(İskender)
      • Tatar: İskändär
      • Turkish: İskender
    • Uzbek: Iskandar
• 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: Александр ‎(Aleksandr)
• Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair
• Serbo-Croatian: Александар, Aleksandar
• Sicilian: Lissandru
• Slovak: Alexander
• Slovene: Aleksander
• Spanish: Alejandro
• Swedish: Alexander
• Ukrainian: Олександр ‎(Oleksandr)
• Welsh: Alecsander
• West Frisian: Aleksander

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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
• NA27
• Strong's Concordance number: G223