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voivode

See also: voïvode

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Etymology edit

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”).

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voivode (plural voivodes)

  1. 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:
      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, 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!
  2. An administrative chief in modern Poland.

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  1. ^ “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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