voivode
See also: voïvode
English
Etymology
Variously from a number of Slavic languages: Bulgarian войво́да (vojvóda), Russian воево́да (vojevóda), Macedonian војвода (vojvoda), Serbo-Croatian vòjvoda, Czech vévoda, Polish wojewoda, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɔɪvəʊd/
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, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- George Sechell […], having beene defeated in a battell by the Vayvoda of Transilvania, and taken Prisoner, was for three dayes together tyed naked to a wooden-horse, exposed to all manner of tortures, any man might devise against him […].
- 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!
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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
a local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe
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