alkad

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alcaide,[1][2] from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid).[1] First attested in 1808.[3][4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal.kat/
  • Rhymes: -alkat
  • Syllabification: al‧kad

Noun

alkad m pers

  1. alcaide (governor or commander of a Spanish or Portuguese fortress or prison)
    alkad Limythe alcaide of Lima

Declension

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “alkad”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “alkad”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. ^ Gazeta Korrespondenta Warszawskiego y Zagranicznego[1] (in Polish), number 35, 1808, page 444
  4. ^ alkad in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

From alkoholiserad (alcoholic).

Adjective

alkad (comparative mer alkad, superlative mest alkad)

  1. (colloquial) alcoholic

Declension

Inflection of alkad
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular alkad
neuter singular alkat
plural alkade
masculine plural2 alkade
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 alkade
all alkade

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

See also