doge

From Venetian Doxe or Italian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”). Doublet of duc, duke, and dux.

• Doge

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊdʒ/, /dəʊʒ/, /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊd͡ʒ/, /doʊʒ/, /ˈdoʊ.d͡ʒeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdʒ, -əʊʒ, -əʊdʒeɪ

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, chapter 34, in A History of Venice, 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 using this term, see Citations:doge.

• dogal
• dogedom
• dogeless
• dogeship
• dogess

• dogaressa

The original doge (sense 2) meme image.

A mock doge (sense 2) meme.

From dog. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊdʒ/, /dəʊʒ/, /dəʊɡ/, (also) /ˈdɒɡi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊdʒ/, /doʊʒ/, /doʊɡ/, (also) /ˈdɑɡi/
• Rhymes: -əʊdʒ, -əʊʒ, -əʊɡ, -ɒɡi

doge (plural doges)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling 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).

• dogecoin

• doge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• doge (meme) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• goed

From Italian doge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo(ː)dʒe/, [ˈdo̞(ː)dʒe̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡe/, [ˈdo̞ɡe̞]

doge

1. doge

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

Borrowed from Italian doge or directly from Venetian Doxe, from Latin ducem (“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 ! […]

     "No, no," we cried from both sides; "there is still Venice. Venice the queen of the seas! The lion of St Mark! The Bucintoro! The doge! What a man is a doge!"

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

• “doge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gode

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.d͡ʒe/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔdʒe
• Hyphenation: dò‧ge

doge m (plural dogi)

1. doge

• dogado

• dego, gode, godé

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

dogè m

1. locative singular of dogas

dòge m

1. vocative singular of dogas

• Hyphenation: do‧ge

doge m (plural doges)

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

Borrowed from Italian doge.

doge m (plural dogi)

1. doge

doge

1. dative singular of dog