loge

From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubija (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge.

• IPA^(key): /ləʊʒ/
• Rhymes: -əʊʒ

loge (plural loges)

1. A booth or stall.
2. The lodge of a concierge.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 70:

     About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.

3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
   • 2006, George Gmelch and J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People‎, →ISBN, page 151:

     In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
   • 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785‎, →ISBN, page 274:

     Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.

• Goel, LEGO, Lego, Ogle, goel, lego, ogle

Borrowed from French loge. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.ʒə/, /ˈlɔː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: lo‧ge

loge f (plural loges, diminutive logetje n)

1. (theater) theatre box, compartment. [from 18th c.]
2. (freemasonry) Masonic lodge. [from 18th c.]
3. reception area, lobby (of a hotel for instance). [from late 19th or 20th c.]

• (Masonic lodge): tempel, werkplaats
• (reception area): receptie

• (theater box): engelenbak, skybox

• ereloge

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.ɣə/
• Hyphenation: lo‧ge

loge

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of liegen

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.ɣə/
• Hyphenation: lo‧ge

loge

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of logen

Old French, from Frankish *laubija (“arbour, protective roof, shelter made of foliage”), related to Old High German louppea, from Proto-Germanic *laubijǭ, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf; folliage”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to break, cut off, peel off, flake off, shed”). The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

• IPA^(key): /lɔʒ/

loge f (plural loges)

1. (freemasonry) lodge
2. (theater) box
3. (obsolete) hut

• logement

• → Dutch: loge
• → Portuguese: loja

loge

1. first-person singular present indicative of loger
2. third-person singular present indicative of loger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of loger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of loger
5. second-person singular imperative of loger

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

Old French, from Frankish *laubja.

loge f (plural loges)

1. hut (small often wooden building)

loge

1. first-person singular present indicative of loger, logier
2. third-person singular present indicative of loger, logier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of loger, logier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of loger, logier
5. second-person singular imperative of loger, logier

• French: loge
  • → Dutch: loge
  • → Portuguese: loja

• loge on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

loge

1. neuter past participle of ljuga and ljuge
2. neuter past participle of lyga and lyge

From French.

• IPA^(key): /loːɧ/

loge c

1. A backstage dressing room for actors at a theatre.
2. A private seating chamber at a theatre.
3. A section or local chapter of an order (for instance freemasons).

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːˌɡɛ/

loge c

1. A barn with a strong and flat wooden floor, suitable for threshing or dancing.

See le (“smile”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːˌɡɛ/

loge

1. subjunctive of le.

loge

1. dative singular of log