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El Cid

/el ˈθid/

proper noun/el ˈθid/

nickname for Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (died 1099), 11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader.

From el + Cid, dialectal Arabic سِيد (sīd, “lord, master”); thus "El Cid" means "The Lord".