Doge
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /dəʊdʒ/, /dəʊʒ/
- US IPA: /doÊŠdÊ’/
- Rhymes: -əʊdʒ
Alternative forms
Origin
From Venetian or Italian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux ("leader, prince").
Full definition of doge
Noun
- (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 62In 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 346This 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.