Alcaide

{{Infobox name|name=Alcaide|gender=Male|meaning="Castle Commander"|region=Iberian Peninsula|language= Portuguese
Spanish|variant forms=Alcaid|footnotes=}}

Alcaide is a Portuguese and Spanish name, meaning 'castle commander'. It is borrowed from the Arabic term {{Transliteration|ar|qāʾid}}, which literally means 'commander'.

Etymology

From the Arabic 'commander' it becomes the Spanish form alcayde or alcaide, origin of the Portuguese form alcaide.{{cite encyclopedia |year=1974 |title=Alcayde |encyclopedia=The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford UP}}

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