doge

See also Doge

English

WOTD – 17 May 2010    

Wikipedia

Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (1523-1538)

Alternative forms

• Doge

Etymology

From Venetian or Italian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dəʊdʒ/, /dəʊʒ/
• (US) IPA: /doʊdʒ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊdʒ

Noun

doge (plural doges)

1. (historical) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
   • 1797, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, page 62

     In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.

   • 1982, John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice, chapter 34, page 346

     This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

• dogedom
• dogeless
• dogeship

Related terms

• dogaressa

Translations

chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa

• Armenian: դոժ (hy) (dož) 
• Azeri: doj (az)
• Belarusian: дож (be) m (dož)
• Bulgarian: дож (bg) (dož)
• Czech: dóže (cs)
• Danish: doge (da) c
• Dutch: doge (nl)
• Estonian: doodž (et)
• Finnish: doge (fi)
• French: doge (fr) m
• Georgian: დოჟი (ka) (doži) 
• German: Doge (de) m
• Greek: δόγης (el) (dógis) m 

• Hungarian: doge (hu), dózse (hu)
• Italian: doge (it) m
• Kazakh: дож (kk) (doj)
• Latvian: dodžs (lv)
• Polish: doża (pl) m
• Portuguese: doge (pt) m
• Romanian: doge (ro) m
• Russian: дож (ru) (dož) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: дужд (sh) m
• Spanish: dux (es) m
• Swedish: doge (sv)
• Turkish: doj (tr)
• Ukrainian: дож (uk) (dož) m 

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Finnish

Noun

doge

1. doge

Declension

Declension of doge (type nalle) singular plural nominative doge doget genitive dogen dogejen dogein1 partitive dogea dogeja accusative doge dogen doget inessive dogessa dogeissa elative dogesta dogeista illative dogeen dogeihin adessive dogella dogeilla ablative dogelta dogeilta allative dogelle dogeille essive dogena dogeina translative dogeksi dogeiksi instructive – dogein abessive dogetta dogeitta comitative – dogeineen 1) Rare.

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French

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Etymology

From Venetian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɔʒ/

Noun

doge m (plural doges)

1. doge
   • 1833, Julie de Quérangal, Philippe de Morvelle, Revue des Deux Mondes, T.2,4

     Non pas, non pas, cria-t-on de tous côtés ; il y a encore Venise. - Venise la reine des mers ! - Le lion de Saint-Marc ! - Le Bucentaure ! - Le doge ! - Quel homme qu'un doge ! […]

References

• Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, huitième édition, 1932-1935

Anagrams

• gode

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”).

Noun

doge m (plural dogi)

1. doge

Anagrams

• gode, godé

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• (dogè) IPA: [doˈɡʲɛ]
• (dòge) IPA: [ˈdoɡʲɛ]

Noun

dogè m

1. locative singular form of dogas.

Noun

dòge m

1. vocative singular form of dogas.

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Volapük

Noun

doge

1. dative singular form of dog