-cracy
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Government; rule:
后缀，表政府；统治：
meritocracy.
能人统治
语源
- French -cratie
法语 -cratie - from Old French
源自 古法语 - from Late Latin -cratia
源自 后期拉丁语 -cratia - from Greek -kratia
源自 希腊语 -kratia - from kratos [strength, power] * see kar-
源自 kratos [力量，权力] *参见 kar-
-cracy
combining form in countable noun
indicating a type of government or rule
⇒
plutocracy
⇒
See also -crat
mobocracy
See also -crat
Origin
from Greek -kratia, from kratos power-cracy
Word Origin
1
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek (aristocracy; democracy); on this model used, with the meaning “rule,” “government,” “governing body,” to form abstract nouns from stems of other origin:
mobocracy; bureaucracy.
Compare -crat.
Origin
< Middle French -cracie (now -cratie) < Late Latin -cratia < Greek -kratia, equivalent to krát(os) rule, strength, might (akin to hard) + -ia -y3
Related Words
- -acy
- -crat
- androcracy
- autocracy
- bureaucracy
- craton
-cracya word element forming a noun termination meaning 'rule', 'government', 'governing body', as in autocracy, bureaucracy.
[French -cratie, from Greek -kratia, from kratos rule, strength]-cracy
noun combining form
monocracy
2. social or political class (as of powerful persons)
mobocracy
3. theory of social organization
technocracy
noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French -cratie, from Late Latin -cratia, from Greek -kratia, from kratos strength, power — more at hard
1. form of government; also : state having such a formmonocracy
2. social or political class (as of powerful persons)
mobocracy
3. theory of social organization
technocracy
-cracy
combining form
- denoting a particular form of government, rule, or influence表示“政体”, “统治”, “影响”：
-
autocracy
democracy.
词源
from French -cratie, via medieval Latin from Greek-kratia 'power, rule'.
1866 Lond. Rev. 6 Jan. 6/1The Lord Lieutenant..holds a court for the barristerocracy of Dublin to wear periodical pumps in.
1860 Lit. Churchman VI. 270/1The ‘demoralising’ influence of a slipper-working ‘capocracy’ upon the minds..of the younger clergy.
1887 19th Centy. Aug. 159 Anarchy..is obviously as incompatible with plutocracy as with any other kind of cracy.
-cracy
word-forming element forming nouns meaning "rule or government by," from French -cratie or directly from Medieval Latin -cratia, from Greek -kratia "power, might; rule, sway; power over; a power, authority," from kratos "strength," from PIE *kre-tes- "power, strength," suffixed form of root *kar-/*ker- "hard" (see hard). The connective -o- has come to be viewed as part of it. Productive in English from c.1800.
-cracy
form or theory of government, social or political class:
form or theory of government, social or political class:
democracy, plutocracy, technocracy
ORIGIN: Repr. French -cratie , Medieval Latin -cratia , Greek -kratia power, rule (kratos strength, authority).
-cra·cy
\krəsē, -si\ noun combining form
or -oc·ra·cy\|äkrəsē, -si\
(-es)
Etymology: Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French -cratie, from Late Latin -cratia, from Greek -kratia, from kratos strength, power — more at hard
1. : form of government ; also : state having such a form
< democracy >
< mobocracy >
< squirocracy >
2. : social or political class (as of powerful persons)
< plutocracy >
< snobocracy >
3. : theory of government or of social organization
< technocracy >
or -oc·ra·cy
1.
< democracy >
< mobocracy >
< squirocracy >
2.
< plutocracy >
< snobocracy >
3.
< technocracy >
-cracy-ocracy
Suffix
- rule
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek suffix -κρατία (-kratía), from κράτος (krátos, “power, rule”).
Usage notes
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Derived terms
See also: Category:English words suffixed with -ocracy
English words suffixed with -cracy