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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA male given name from Ancient Greek. · A female given name from Ancient Greek, transferred from the male name and used since the 1940s.
From French Alexis, from Latin Alexis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).
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