alcaide

American  

[al-kahy-dee, ahl-kahy-the] / ælˈkaɪ di, ɑlˈkaɪ ðɛ /

Or alcayde

noun

plural

alcaides

1. a commander of a fortress.

2. a jailer; the warden of a prison.

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alcaide British  

/ alˈkaɪðe, ælˈkeɪd /

noun

1. the commander of a fortress or castle

2. the governor of a prison

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Etymology

Origin of alcaide

First recorded in 1495–1505; from Spanish, from Arabic al-qā'id “the leader”

Example Sentences

The linked app compares data with the user's medical history to check for any deviation, a possible sign of a problem, said Alcaide.

From Barron's

"Apple Watch can pick up Parkinson's, but it can only pick it up once you have a tremor," Alcaide said.

From Barron's

"The reason preventive medicine doesn't work right now is because you don't want to go to the doctor all the time to get things tested," says Ramses Alcaide, co-founder and CEO of startup Neurable.

From Barron's

The phenomenon likely has its roots in relatives sharing socio-demographic characteristics: people of similar backgrounds are known to pair up and to be more likely to give birth at certain times of the year, say researchers Dr. Adela Recio Alcaide, of the University of Alcalá in Spain, and Professor Luisa N. Borrell, of the City University of New York in the United States.

From Science Daily

"What could cause the higher probabilities of family members being born in the same season? The potential explanations seem to be both social and biological," states Dr. Adela Recio Alcaide, an epidemiologist at the University of Alcala.

From Science Daily