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 Limy ― the alcaide of Lima

Declension
Declension of alkad
singular plural
nominative alkad alkadzi/alkadowie
genitive alkada alkadów
dative alkadowi alkadom
accusative alkada alkadów
instrumental alkadem alkadami
locative alkadzie alkadach
vocative alkadzie alkadzi/alkadowie

References
  1. Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) 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, issue 35, 1808, page 444
  4. alkad in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  • Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

Further reading
  • alkad in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • alkad in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “alkad”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861

Swedish

Etymology

From alkoholiserad (“alcoholic”).

Adjective

alkad (comparative mer alkad, superlative mest alkad)

  1. (colloquial) alcoholic

Declension
Inflection of alkad
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular alkad — —
Neuter singular alkat — —
Plural alkade — —
Masculine plural3 alkade — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 alkade — —
All alkade — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

See also
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