Alexandre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Alexandre and Portuguese Alexandre.

Proper noun

Alexandre

1. A male given name from French or Portuguese, equivalent to English Alexander.

Anagrams

• Alexander, alexander

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ə.ləɡˈzan.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [a.leɡˈzan.dɾe]

Proper noun

Alexandre m

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

Related terms

• Àlex
• Alexandra
• alexandrí
• Alexandria

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lɛk.sɑ̃dʁ/

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Proper noun

Alexandre m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander
2. a surname originating as a patronymic

Derived terms

• Alexandre le Grand

Related terms

• pet form: Alex
• feminine: Alexandra

Descendants

• → Breton: Aleksandr, Alesant

Latin

Proper noun

Alexandre

1. vocative singular of Alexander

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.lek.sɑn.dre/

Proper noun

Alexandre

1. dative singular of Alexander

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek-

Proto-Indo-European *-seti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂lékseti

Proto-Hellenic *aléksōder.

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓λέξω (ăléxō)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr

Proto-Hellenic *anḗr

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νδρ- (ăndr-)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros)

Latin Alexanderlbor.

Old Galician-Portuguese Alexandre

Learned borrowing from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).

Proper noun

Alexandre m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander
   • 1295, anonymous author, chapter 1, in [Crónica Xeral e Crónica de Castela]; republished as Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Ourensanos, 1975, page 464:

     Et ficou y este Bordim ata o tempo del papa terçeyro que ouue nume Ougenio, que foy depoys d'Alexandre, el quarto.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Galician: Alexandre
• Portuguese: Alexandre, Alexandro
  • → Vietnamese: Alexanđê

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Alexandre”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “Alexandre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Alexandro

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Alexandre, from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros). Doublet of Alessandro and Alexander.

Cognate with Galician Alexandre.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.leˈʃɐ̃.dɾi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.lɨˈʃɐ̃.dɾɨ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɾi, -ɐ̃dɾɨ
• Hyphenation: A‧le‧xan‧dre

Proper noun

Alexandre m (plural Alexandres, feminine Alexandra, feminine plural Alexandras)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander

Derived terms

• Alê
• Alexandra
• Alexandrão
• Alexandre, o Grande
• Alexandrinho
• alexandrino
• Xandão
• Xande
• Xandre

Related terms

• Aleixo
• Alessandro
• Alex
• Alexander
• Alexandria
• Alexandro
• Alexandrópolis

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: Alexanđê

Proper noun

Alexandre m or f by sense (plural Alexandres)

1. a surname transferred from the given name