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

Noun

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.

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

Translations

References
  1. “voivode, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “voivode, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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