ALEXANDRIA, alexandria
Sounds Like: A-lek-SAN-dree-ah
Translations: Alexandria
From the root: ALEXANDRIA
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Alexandria is a proper noun referring to a famous ancient city in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great. It was a major center of Hellenistic culture and commerce, renowned for its Great Library and Lighthouse. It is used in sentences like any other place name, for example, 'He traveled to Alexandria' or 'Life in Alexandria was prosperous'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Ablative
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ALEXANDRIA.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ALEXANDRIAM — Alexandria, to Alexandria, into Alexandria
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