The story
- Latin · borrowed fromdux“leader”
- English todaydux
Borrowed from Latin dux (“leader”). Doublet of doge, duc, duce, and duke.
Words from the same roots
Latindux all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
dux
Today it means: The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline. Full definition →
Latin dux