duque

Borrowed from Old French duc (“duke”), from Latin dux (“ruler”), from dūcō (“to lead”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈduke/ [ˈd̪u.ke]
• Rhymes: -uke
• Syllabification: du‧que

duque m (plural duques)

1. duke

   Synonyms: duplu, duquesu

• “duque” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

From Old Galician-Portuguese duc (“duke”), borrowed from Old French duc (“duke”), from Latin dux (“ruler”), from dūcō (“to lead”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈduke/ [ˈd̪u.kɪ]
• Rhymes: -uke
• Hyphenation: du‧que

duque m (plural duques, feminine duquesa, feminine plural duquesas)

1. duke (the male ruler of a duchy)

• ducado

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “duque”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “duque”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “duque”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “duque”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “duque”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “duque”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Old Galician-Portuguese duc (“duke”), borrowed from Old French duc (“duke”), from Latin dux (“ruler”), from dūcō (“to lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Doublet of doge.

• Hyphenation: du‧que

duque m (plural duques, feminine duquesa, feminine plural duquesas)

1. duke (male ruler of a duchy)
2. (card games) deuce, two (a card with two spots)

• Duque de Caxias

• ducado
• ducal

Borrowed from Old French duc, from Latin dux. Doublet of dux.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduke/ [ˈd̪u.ke]
• Rhymes: -uke
• Syllabification: du‧que

duque m (plural duques, feminine duquesa, feminine plural duquesas)

1. duke

• “duque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024