loge

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləʊʒ/
• Rhymes: -əʊʒ

Noun

loge (plural loges)

1. A booth or stall.
2. The lodge of a concierge.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 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 and J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People‎, →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.
   • 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785‎, →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.

Anagrams

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

Pronunciation

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Etymology 3

Etymology

Old French, from Frankish *laubja, related to Old High German louppea, from Proto-Germanic *laubja, probably from Proto-Indo-European *leubʰ- (“peel, strip, break off”). The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔʒ/

Noun

loge f (plural loges)

1. (freemasonry) lodge
2. (theater) box
3. (obsolete) hut

Verb

loge

1. first-person singular present indicative of loger
2. third-person singular present indicative of loger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of loger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of loger
5. second-person singular imperative of loger

Further reading

• “loge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Old French, from Frankish *laubja.

Noun

loge f (plural loges)

1. hut (small often wooden building)

Verb

loge

1. first-person singular present indicative of loger, logier
2. third-person singular present indicative of loger, logier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of loger, logier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of loger, logier
5. second-person singular imperative of loger, logier

References

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

Verb

loge

1. neuter past participle of ljuga and ljuge
2. neuter past participle of lyga and lyge

Etymology 1

From French.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

See le (“smile”)

Noun

loge

1. dative singular of log