Given name
Alaricus
“king of all”
Alaricus is a masculine given name from Gothic, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alaricus goes back to Proto-Germanic *Alarīks, meaning “king of all.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Alaricus comes from Gothic, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Gothic *𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, from Proto-Germanic *Alarīks (“king of all”), built from Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 + 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Alaricus’s family of names
In Latin usage, Alaricus has a conventional equivalent in the German form ALARICH.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alaricus
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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