Etymology

dogaressa

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Today it means: The wife of a doge. Full definition →

Italian dogaressa ← Venetan dogaresa ← Medieval Latin ducarissa
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromdūcātor“leader”
  2. Medieval Latin · derived fromducarissa
  3. Venetan · derived fromdogaresa
  4. Italian · borrowed fromdogaressa
  5. English todaydogaressa

Unadapted borrowing from Italian dogaressa, from Venetan dogaresa, from Medieval Latin ducarissa, from the stem of Latin dūcātor (“leader”) and dūcāre (“to lead”) + -issa (feminine suffix). Doublet of dogess and duchess.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.