different between doge vs dope

English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• Doge

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??d?/, /d???/, /?d??.d?e?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /do?d?/, /do??/, /?do?.d?e?/
• Rhymes: -??d?, -???

Noun

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, A History of Venice, chapter 34, 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:doge.

Derived terms

• dogedom
• dogeless
• dogeship

Related terms

• dogaressa

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??d?/, /d???/, /d???/, (also) /?d??i/

Noun

doge (plural doges)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) A dog.
3. (Internet slang, humorous) Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.

Derived terms

• dogecoin

Translations

Further reading

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

References

Anagrams

• goed

Finnish

Noun

doge

1. doge

Declension

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

French

Etymology

From Venetian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/

Noun

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 ! […]

References

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

Further reading

• “doge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gode

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.d??e/

Noun

doge m (plural dogi)

1. doge

Related terms

• dogado

References

Anagrams

• gode, godé

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• (dogè) IPA^(key): [do????]
• (dòge) IPA^(key): [?do???]

Noun

dogè m

1. locative singular of dogas

Noun

dòge m

1. vocative singular of dogas

Portuguese

Noun

doge m (plural doges)

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

Volapük

Noun

doge

1. dative singular of dog

English

Etymology

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *d?pen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijan?.

Sense “narcotic drug” originally from viscous opium pastes, “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Related to English dip and German taufen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [d??p]
• (US) IPA^(key): [do?p]
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

1. (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
2. (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
3. (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
4. (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin. [from late 19th c.]
5. (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonym: scoop
6. (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
7. (countable, slang) A stupid person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
8. (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.

Derived terms

• dope fiend
• dope house
• dope man
• dope sheet
• dope slap/dope-slap
• dope story
• dopeless

Translations

Verb

dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)

1. (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.

   Synonym: administer
2. (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
3. (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
4. (intransitive, now chiefly sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
5. (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

Derived terms

• dope up

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)

1. (slang) Amazing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awesome

Translations

References

Anagrams

• deop, depo, op-ed, oped, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, pode, poed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?p?]

Verb

dope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen

French

Etymology

From English dope

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/

Noun

dope f (plural dopes)

1. (informal) illicit drug, narcotic

Verb

dope

1. first-person singular present indicative of doper
2. third-person singular present indicative of doper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doper
5. second-person singular imperative of doper

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?do?.p?]

Verb

dope

1. inflection of dopen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Ido

Etymology

From dop +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do.pe/

Adverb

dope

1. back, behind, aback

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dope/, [?d?o.pe]

Verb

dope

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dopar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dopar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dopar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dopar.