Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline. · A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion. · The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
Borrowed from Latin dux (“leader”). Doublet of doge, duc, duce, and duke.
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