doge

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

• Doge

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

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• Rhymes: -əʊdʒ, -əʊʒ

doge (plural doges or dogi)

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.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:doge.

• dogedom
• dogeless
• dogeship

• dogaressa

First attested in the 2009 Youtube video "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.

doge (plural doges)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of dog
2. (Internet slang, humorous) Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.
   • 2015 July 23, Dave Lee, “Six times Reddit wasn't completely awful”, in BBC‎:

     Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).

doge

1. doge

In genitive plural, non-standard dogien seems to be the most commonly used form.

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

• IPA^(key): /dɔʒ/

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 ! […]

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

• “doge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gode

Borrowed from Venetian Doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”). See also the doublets duce and duca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.d͡ʒe/[1]

doge m (plural dogi)

1. doge

• dogado

• gode, godé

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

dogè m

1. locative singular of dogas

dòge m

1. vocative singular of dogas

doge m (plural doges)

1. (historical) doge (chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa)

doge

1. dative singular of dog