Alaric is a Germanic name that, broken into its parts means Ala :"everyone's" an ric: "ruler". This has various forms in the several Germanic languages, such as Alareiks in the original Gothic and Alrekr in Old Norse. Most odern Germanic languages render it as Alarich or Alarik but Alaric is the form used in modern English, an adaptation of the Latinization of the Gothic (Alaricus). In Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish it is Alarico.