alexandrin

From Latin Alexandrīnus.

• IPA^(key): /a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁɛ̃/

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alexandrin (feminine alexandrine, masculine plural alexandrins, feminine plural alexandrines)

1. (relational) alexandrine

alexandrin m (plural alexandrins)

1. (poetry) alexandrine (line of poetic meter having twelve syllables)

• “alexandrin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from French alexandrin, from Latin Alexandrinus.

alexandrin m or n (feminine singular alexandrină, masculine plural alexandrini, feminine/neuter plural alexandrine)

1. alexandrine

alexandrin c

1. an alexandrine (line of a twelve-syllable poetic meter)
2. an Alexandrian (native or inhabitant of Alexandria)

• Alexandria
• alexandrinsk

• alexandrin in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• alexandrin in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1904)