Ἄλεξις
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From ἀλέξω (aléxō) + -ις (-is).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.lek.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.lek.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lek.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lek.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.lek.sis/
Proper noun edit
Ἄλεξῐς • (Álexis) m (genitive Ἀλέξιδος); third declension
- a male given name meaning “helper, defender”, equivalent to English Alexis
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Ἄλεξῐς ho Álexis | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Ἀλέξῐδος toû Aléxidos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Ἀλέξῐδῐ tôi Aléxidi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Ἀλέξῐδᾰ tòn Aléxida | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἄλεξῐς Álexis | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- Ἀλέξιος (Aléxios)
Further reading edit
- Ἄλεξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Ἄλεξις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Ἄλεξις - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.