The corpus record — Latin

Alexander

Alexander · m

the name of many persons of antiquity

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Eumenes 18 · 78.64/10k
Alexander Severus 66 · 61.72/10k
De Regibus 2 · 45.15/10k
Pelopidas 3 · 42.13/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 293 · 39.5/10k
Maximini Duo 19 · 35.03/10k
De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 12 · 20.73/10k
Suasoriae 20 · 19.47/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 2 · 19.12/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 22 · 13.73/10k
Gordiani Tres 7 · 12.6/10k

Densest 12 of 97 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ălexander — Lewis & Short

ălexander, dri, m.*)ale/candros, hence, Charis. 64 P. asserts that there is also a nom. Alexandrus, but gives no example,

I the name of many persons of antiquity; among whom,

I The most renowned is Alexander, son of Philip and Olympia, surnamed Magnus, the founder of the great Macedonian monarchy extending from Macedonia to the Indus (v. his life in Plut. and Curt.).—

II Alexander, son of Perseus, king of Macedonia, Liv. 42, 52; 45, 39.—

III A tyrant of Pherœ, in Thessaly; hence also sometimes called Pheræus, Cic. Div. 1, 25; id. Inv. 2, 49; id. Off. 2, 7; Nep. Pelop. 5, 1.—

IV A king of Epirus, Liv. 8, 3.—

V Another name of Paris, son of Priam, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 5, 96; Cic. Fat. 15; Auct. ad Her. 4, 30; hence sometimes, Alexander Paris, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 76 al.

In the wild

Alexander Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.21.34
Alexander Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.19.9
Alexander Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.7.5
Alexandri Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 5
Alexander Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.32.10.2
Alexander Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.12.8

6 of 951 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.