Noun: doge
| Singular | doge |
| Plural | doges; dogi |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1797, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, page 62:]
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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. [1982, John Julius Norwich, chapter 34, in A History of Venice, page 346:]
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The doge and the Venetian Senate might still be the servants (douloi) of the emperor, but nonetheless they were able to fix the price of their naval aid. [2013, Judith Herrin, “The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century: A Study of a Medieval Economy”, in Margins and Metropolis: Authority Across the Byzantine Empire, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, page 114:]
Nouns inflected like doge
lazarone,
boccale,
panforte,
padrone,
pianoforte,
zeppole,
canzone,
calzone,
cassone,
conversazione,
cortile,
lazzarone,
campanile,
armatole,
padre,
condottiere,
ricercare,
ducatone,
pastorale,
cicerone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
3. Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
4. Proto-Italic *doukō
5. Latin dūcō
6. Proto-Indo-European *-s
7. Latin -s
8. Latin dux
9. Venetan doxebor.
10. Italian dogeder.
11. English doge
12. Partly from Middle French doge and partly from its etymon, Italian doge, from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader; commander; ruler”). Doublet of duc, duce, duke, and dux. See: Italian Nouns '
doge'.