Alexandrea

Latin

Alternative forms

• Alexandrīa

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 Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος (Ăléxăndros)

Ancient Greek -υς (-us)?

Pre-Greekder.?

Proto-Hellenic *-eús

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)?

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.

Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)

Ancient Greek -ειᾰ (-eiă)

Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia)bor.

Latin Alexandrēa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia).

Proper noun

Alexandrēa f sg (genitive Alexandrēae); first declension

1. Alexandria (several cities in the Hellenistic world, but most especially an ancient capital of Egypt)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Alexandrēa
genitive	Alexandrēae
dative	Alexandrēae
accusative	Alexandrēam
ablative	Alexandrēā
vocative	Alexandrēa
locative	Alexandrēae

Descendants

• → Old Galician-Portuguese: Alexandria, Aleixandria, Alexandrya
  • Galician: Alexandría
  • Portuguese: Alexandria

References

• “Alexandrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Alexandrea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.