voivode
See also: voïvode
English
Etymology
Variously from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода (vojvoda), Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да (vojevóda), and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода,[1] all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɔɪˌvəʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɔɪˌvoʊd/
- Hyphenation: voi‧vode
Noun
voivode (plural voivodes)
- A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- George Sechell […], having been defeated in a battle by the Vayvoda of Transylvania, and taken Prisoner, was for three days together tied naked to a wooden horse, exposed to all manner of tortures, any man might devise against him […].
- 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal—Continued”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, OCLC 688657546, page 32:
- Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed!
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- An administrative chief in modern Poland.
Alternative forms
obsolete and less common forms
- woywod (obsolete)
- waywode (obsolete)
- voivoda (archaic)
- waiwode (archaic)
- voyvode
- voievod
- vayvode (obsolete)
- voevode
- voievode
- voyevode
- vaivoda (obsolete)
- waivode
- wojewod
- vojvod
- voievoda
- voyvod
- wojwode (obsolete)
- vaivod (obsolete)
- vojevoda
- woyewoda
- vaiwode (obsolete)
- vayvoda (obsolete)
- waywod (obsolete)
- wayvode (obsolete)
- vaywode (obsolete)
- waywoda (obsolete, uncommon)
- woywoda (obsolete, uncommon)
- wojwoda (obsolete, uncommon)
- woivode (obsolete, uncommon)
- woiwoda (obsolete, uncommon)
- wojwod (uncommon)
- woiwoda (obsolete, uncommon)
- waivod (obsolete, uncommon)
- wayvoda (obsolete, uncommon)
- waiwod (rare)
- woewoda (rare)
- waiwoda (obsolete, rare)
- woiewoda (obsolete, rare)
- vojevode (rare)
- woiewode (rare)
- vojevod (rare)
- wayvod (obsolete, rare)
- woyewode (obsolete, rare)
- woyvode (obsolete, rare)
- voywode (obsolete, very rare)
- woewod (very rare)
- wayvod (obsolete, very rare)
- woyewode (obsolete, very rare)
- woyvode (obsolete, very rare)
- voywode (obsolete, very rare)
- woiewod (very rare)
- woewode (obsolete, very rare)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe
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References
- “voivode, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “voivode, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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