Leander (name)
Leander is the Latin form of the Greek male given name Λέανδρος (Leandros) and is made up of the Attic variant λεώς (leōs) of the word λάος (laos) "people" and the root form (* ανδρ ·) of the word ἀνήρ (anēr) "man "Together, thus roughly the meaning" people man "or" man of the people ".
The frequent ad hoc etymologization, which interprets the name as a combination of the components λέων (leōn) "lion" and the root form of ἀνήρ, is linguistically untenable, since λέων as a noun of the consonant declination uses the stem * λεοντ · would require.
The name is also common as a family name.
name day
Name days are March 13th (Catholic) and February 27th .
variants
- Leandra (female variant)
- Leandro (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)
- Leandros (Greek)
- Léandre (French)
- Леандер (Russian spelling)
Name bearer
First name
- Leander from the legend of Hero and Leander
- Leander of Seville (540–600), Visigoth archbishop, Benedictine monk
- Leander Anguissola (1653–1720), cartographer, educator, engineer and lieutenant colonel in Austrian service
- Leander Czerny (1859–1944), Czech entomologist, dipterologist
- Leander Dossios (1846-1883), Greek chemist
- Leander van Eß (1772–1847), author of a German translation of the Bible
- Leander Haußmann (* 1959), German film and theater director
- Leander Jameson (1853–1917), South African Prime Minister and leader of the Jameson Raid
- Leander Jordan (born 1977), American football player
- Leander Kaiser (* 1947), Austrian painter
- Leander Lichti (* 1976), German actor
- Leander Modersohn (* 1980), German actor
- Leander Paes (* 1973), Indian tennis player
- Leander Petzoldt (* 1934), German folklorist
- Leander Pflüger (* 1952), German university professor for education
- Leander Russ (1809–1864), Austrian painter
- Leander Scholz (* 1969), German cultural scientist and writer
- Leander J. Shaw, Jr. (1930-2015), American attorney and judge
- Leander Sukov (* 1957), German author
- Leander Winkels (* 1996), German author
Intermediate name
- Wolfgang Leander Bauer (1930–1997), German sinologist
family name
- Börje Leander (1918–2003), Swedish football player
- George Leander (1883–1904), American track cyclist
- Kathy Leander (* 1963), Swiss singer
- Margot Leander (* 1895; † after 1929), German concert and opera singer
- Mike Leander (1941–1996), British music producer and arranger
- Pontus Leander (1872-1935), Swedish orientalist
- Thomas Leander (* 1960), German pianist and university professor
- Zarah Leander (1907–1981), Swedish actress and singer
- Richard Leander , pseudonym of the surgeon and poet Richard von Volkmann
swell
- ^ W. Pape: Dictionary of Greek Proper Names, Vol. 2. Braunschweig 1884, p. 779.