Alexius Explained
Alexius |
Gender: | Male |
Language: | Greek |
See also: | Alexia (female) Alexey |
Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αλέξιος, polytonic Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀλέξιος, "defender", cf. Alexander), especially common in the Byzantine Empire. The female form is Alexia (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αλεξία) and its variants such as Alessia (the masculine form of which is Alessio) in Italian.
The name belongs to the most ancient attested Greek names (a-re-ke-se-u in the Linear B tablets KN Df 1229 and MY Fu 718).
Rulers
- Alexios I Komnenos (1048–1118), Byzantine emperor
- Alexios II Komnenos (1167–1183), Byzantine emperor
- Alexios III, Byzantine emperor
- Alexios IV, Byzantine emperor
- Alexios V Doukas, Byzantine emperor
- Alexios I of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
- Alexios II of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
- Alexios III of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
- Alexios IV of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
- Alexios V of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
- Alexius Mikhailovich (1629–1676), Tsar of Russia
- Alexius Petrovich (1690–1718), Russian tsarevich
Religious figures
Other
- Alexios Apokaukos, Byzantine statesman
- Alexios Aspietes, Byzantine governor
- Alexios Branas, Byzantine general
- Alexios Halebian, American tennis player
- Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher
- Alexios Mosele (Caesar), Byzantine heir-apparent
- Alexios Palaiologos (despot), Byzantine heir-apparent
- Alexios Philanthropenos, Byzantine general
- Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios), Byzantine general
- Alexios Strategopoulos, Byzantine general
- Alexios Xiphias, Byzantine Catepan of Italy
- Alexios (Assassin's Creed), a fictional character in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Alexius in other languages
- English – Alexis, Aleck
- German – Alexius, Alexis
- Greek – Αλέξιος [''Alexios''], Αλέξης [''Alexis'']
- French – Alexis
- Italian – Alessio
- Spanish – Alejo, Alexis
- Portuguese – Aleixo
- Latvian – Alexius, Aleksis, Aleksejs
- Polish – Aleksy
- Czech – Aleš, Alexej
- Slovak – Aleš
- Estonian – Aleksei
- Bulgarian – Алексей [Aleksej]
- Serbian – Aleksa
- Finnish – Aleksi, Aleksis
- Macedonian – Aleksio
- Georgian – ალექსი, [''Aleksi'' ]
- Belarusian – Аляксей [Aleksiej]
- Russian – Алексей [''Alexei'', ''Alexey'', ''Aleksei'', ''Aleksey], Алексий [''Alexiy], Алёша [''Alyosha], Лёша [''Lyosha'']
- Ukrainan – Олексій [''Oleksii'', ''Oleksiy''], Олекса [''Oleksa'']
- Hungarian – Elek