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See also: Alcaide
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish alcaide, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid, “leader”); compare caid.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alcaide (plural alcaides)
- (historical) The governor or commander of a Spanish or Portuguese fortress or prison.
- 1810, John Joseph Stockdale (editor and publisher), The History of the Inquisitions, extract published in 1810, The Literary Panorama, and National Register, Volume 8, page 219,
- It was, above all, to the alcaide and the guards of the prisoners that he studied to recommend himself.
- 1825, The Literary Chronicle for the year 1825, page 172:
- The municipal bodies were charged regularly to inspect the prisons; to watch over the conduct of the alcaides, and the inferior officers; and to propose to the government such measures as they judged to be best conducive to humanity and sound policy.
- A caid.
Translations
[edit]governor or commander of a Spanish or Portuguese fortress
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alcaide, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid, “the leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: al‧cai‧de
Noun
[edit]alcaide m (plural alcaides)
- alcaide (commander of a province or fortress)
Alternative forms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid, “leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alcaide m or f by sense (plural alcaides)
- commander of the defense of a castle
- administrator of royal property
- warden; administrator of a prison
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “alcaide”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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