loge

From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊʒ

loge (plural loges)

1. A booth or stall.
2. The lodge of a concierge.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 70:

     About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.

3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
   • 2006, George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People‎^[1], →ISBN, page 151:

     In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment.

   • 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785‎^[2], →ISBN, page 274:

     Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.

• lego, Ogle, Goel, gole, Oleg, Lego, goel, ogle, LEGO

Borrowed from French loge. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.ʒə/, /ˈlɔː.ʒə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: lo‧ge

loge f (plural loges, diminutive logetje n)

1. (theater) theatre box, compartment [from 18th c.]
2. (Freemasonry) Masonic lodge [from 18th c.]
3. reception area, lobby (of a hotel for instance) [from late 19th or 20th c.]

• (Masonic lodge): tempel, werkplaats
• (reception area): receptie

• (theater box): engelenbak, skybox

• ereloge

• → Javanese: ꦭꦺꦴꦗꦶ (loji)
• → Lokono: logie
• → Malay: loji
  • Indonesian: loji
• → Indonesian: losê

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.ɣə/
• Hyphenation: lo‧ge

loge

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of liegen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.ɣə/
• Hyphenation: lo‧ge

loge

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of logen

• IPA^(key): /lɔʒ/

Inherited from Middle French loge, from Old French loge, borrowed from Frankish *laubijā, from Proto-West Germanic *laub + *-jō. The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

loge f (plural loges)

1. (dated) small cabin, hut
2. lodge (of a concierge/caretaker)
3. (theater) box, loge
4. (theater, television) dressing room (a room in a theatre or other performance venue in which performers may change costumes and apply makeup)
5. (Freemasonry) lodge

• être aux premières loges

• logement

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loge

1. inflection of loger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “loge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French loge, borrowed from Frankish *laubijā, from Proto-West Germanic *laub + *-jō.

loge f (plural loges)

1. hut (small often wooden building)
2. boutique
3. (theater) loge (upscale seating region)

• French: loge
  • → German: Loge
  • → Dutch: loge
  • → Macedonian: ложа (loža)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: losje
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: losje
  • → Polish: loża
  • → Russian: ло́жа (lóža)
  • → Persian: لژ (lož)
  • → Swedish: loge
  • → Ukrainian: ло́жа (lóža)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

loge

1. inflection of loger, logier:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• loge on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

• lue (noun and verb, more common)

• (noun): From Old Norse logi.
• (verb): From Old Norse loga.

loge m (definite singular logen, indefinite plural loger, definite plural logene)

1. flame

loge (present tense loger, past tense loga or loget, past participle loga or loget)

1. burn forcefully
2. shine, light

• “loge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse logi. Shares a far back origin with lys (“light”). Thus it ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, shine”).

• IPA^(key): /²loː.ʝə/, [²lɞ̞ː.ʝə], /²loː.ɡə/

loge m (definite singular logen, indefinite plural logar, definite plural logane)

1. a flame
2. a torch

• (flame): eld, flamme
• (torch): fakkel

loge (present tense logar, past tense loga, past participle loga, passive infinitive logast, present participle logande, imperative loge/log)

1. e-infinitive form of loga

• i ljos loge
• lue (Bokmål, noun and verb)

Related to lag and liggje.

• lògu, lugu (superseded and/or dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /²loː.ɡə/
• Homophone: låge

loge f (definite singular loga, indefinite plural loger, definite plural logene)

1. (weaving) a warp (thread running lengthwise in woven fabric

   Synonym: renningstråd

2. (in compounds) something that lies down

• forloge
• iloge
• nedloge
• åloge

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /²luː.ʃə/

loge m (definite singular logen)

1. Nonstandard spelling of losje.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• loget (non-standard since 1901)
• logi (non-standard since 2012)

• IPA^(key): /²loː.ʝə/, [²lɞ̞ː.ʝə], /²loː.ɡə/
• Homophone: låge

loge

1. neuter singular of logen

loge

1. supine of ljuga

• “loge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• lego

lōge

1. dative singular of lōg

Borrowed from Frankish *laubijā.

loge oblique singular, f (oblique plural loges, nominative singular loge, nominative plural loges)

1. hut (small often wooden building)
2. boutique
3. upstairs room

• Middle French: loge
  • French: loge
    • → German: Loge
    • → Dutch: loge
    • → Macedonian: ложа (loža)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: losje
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: losje
    • → Polish: loża
    • → Russian: ло́жа (lóža)
    • → Persian: لژ (lož)
    • → Swedish: loge
    • → Ukrainian: ло́жа (lóža)
• → Middle Dutch: loige
  • Dutch: loods
• → Middle English: logge
  • English: lodge
    • → Dutch: lodge
  • Scots: ludge
• → Old Catalan: loja, lotge, lotga, lotia, loia, lonja
  • Catalan: llotja, llonja
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: lonja
    • Galician: loxa
    • Portuguese: loja
      • → Hunsrik: Loja
      • → Makalero: loja (“shop”)
      • → Tetum: loja
  • → Old Spanish: loja
• → Old Italian: loggia
  • Italian: loggia (see there for further descendants)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

loge

1. inflection of loger, logier:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “loge”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

loge

1. accusative plural of log

From French loge.

• IPA^(key): /loːɧ/
• Rhymes: -oːɧ
• Hyphenation: loge

loge c

1. A backstage dressing room for actors at a theatre
2. A private seating chamber at a theatre
3. A section or local chapter of an order (for instance freemasons)

From Old Swedish loe, from Old Norse lófi (“threshing floor”).

• IPA^(key): /²luːɡɛ/
• Rhymes: -²uːɡɛ

loge c

2. A barn with a strong and flat wooden floor, suitable for threshing or dancing.

• logdans (“barn dance”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /²luːɡɛ/
• Rhymes: -²uːɡɛ

loge

1. (dated) subjunctive of le

• loge in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• loge in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• loge in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• geol., lego

loge

1. dative singular of log