Alexandre

Borrowed from French Alexandre and Portuguese Alexandre.

Alexandre

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

• Alexander, alexander

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).

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

Alexandre m

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

• Àlex
• Alexandra
• alexandrí
• Alexandria

• IPA^(key): /a.lɛk.sɑ̃dʁ/

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Alexandre m

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

• Alexandre le Grand

• pet form: Alex
• feminine: Alexandra

• → Breton: Aleksandr, Alesant

Alexandre

1. vocative singular of Alexander

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.lek.sɑn.dre/

Alexandre

1. dative singular of Alexander

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

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.

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

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

• Alexandro

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

Cognate with Galician Alexandre.

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

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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander

• → Vietnamese: Alexanđê