different between vaivode vs voivode

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From Hungarian vajvoda (now vajda).

vaivode (plural vaivodes)

woiwode, voevoda, voivod, vojvoda, voevod, vaivode, wojewoda, voyvoda, voyevoda, woywode, vojvode

Variously from a number of Slavic languages from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda.

voivode (plural voivodes)

A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 3:
  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!
An administrative chief in modern Poland.

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