Aleksandar

== Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Алеѯандръ (Aleksandrŭ), from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος (Ăléxăndros). Older variant without "fleeting a": Александр. Archiaic Serbian variant (13th-16th c.) Aleksend(a)r may be related to OCS variant form Алексѧдр- (Codex Marianus). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /alěksaːndar/, /aleksâːndar/, /aleksǎːndar/ Hyphenation: A‧lek‧san‧dar === Proper noun === Alèksāndar or Aleksȃndar or Aleksándar m anim (Cyrillic spelling Алѐкса̄ндар or Алекса̑ндар or Алекса́ндар, relational adjective aleksandrovski, possessive adjective Aleksandrov) a male given name from Greek, equivalent to English Alexander a surname ==== Usage notes ==== Accents: Alèksāndar (classical norm), Aleksȃndar (non-Neoštokavian, but also present in Nštok. areas), Aleksándar (younger "metatonic" accent) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== Aleksandra (feminine variant) Aco (hypocoristic variant) Aleksandrić (last name) Aleksandrovac (toponym) === References === === Further reading === “Aleksandar”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026