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• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [aˈɫaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [aˈlaː.nus]

Borrowed fromAncient GreekἈλᾱνός(Alānós),Ἀλᾱνοί(Alānoí). Perhaps renewed inLate Latin, especially in Spain in the meaning "dog breed", as aMigration PeriodWanderwort, e.g. viaGothic*𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐍃(*alans).^[1]

• Halānus,Alaunus

Alānus (feminineAlāna,neuterAlānum);first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to theAlan tribe

First/second-declension adjective.

Alānus m (genitiveAlānī,feminineAlāna);second declension

1. Alan(a member of theAlan tribe)
2. (Medieval Latin)alaunt(an extinct hunting dog breed related to the modernbulldog andmastiff)

First/second-declension adjective.

• Alānia

Note: none are likely to be directly inherited.

Unclear origin. Perhaps Latinization of aCeltic name such asOld BretonAlan, belonging to several Breton saints and borrowed as EnglishAlan andFrenchAlain. This could be connected withIrishail(“noble”), or else has been borrowed by Breton from the word underEtymology 1.^[2]

Alānus m (genitiveAlānī,feminineAlana);second declension

1. (Medieval Latin)a malegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAlan

Second-declension noun.

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*alanus”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte,page289
• “Alanus”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• “Alanus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Alanus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "Alanus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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