-cracycomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. physiocracy n.

Forms: Formerly also -cratie, -crasie.

Etymology: < French -cratie < post-classical Latin -cratia < Greek κρατία (in compounds) power, rule, < κράτος strength, might, rule, authority.

Already used in Greek in ἀριστοκρατία aristocracy, rule of the best-born, δημοκρατία democracy, popular government, ὀχλοκρατία ochlocracy, mob-rule, πλουτοκρατία plutocracy, an oligarchy of wealth, θεοκρατία theocracy, rule of God. The word aristocracy has in modern times, in French and English, passed into the senses of ‘a ruling body of nobles, the nobles as a ruling class, political power, or upper class’, after which democracy has received the sense of ‘the common people as a political power or element’, and plutocracy that of ‘a class ruling or influential by virtue of its wealth’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	-cracy
释义	-cracycomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. physiocracy n. Forms: Formerly also -cratie, -crasie. Etymology: < French -cratie < post-classical Latin -cratia < Greek κρατία (in compounds) power, rule, < κράτος strength, might, rule, authority. Already used in Greek in ἀριστοκρατία aristocracy, rule of the best-born, δημοκρατία democracy, popular government, ὀχλοκρατία ochlocracy, mob-rule, πλουτοκρατία plutocracy, an oligarchy of wealth, θεοκρατία theocracy, rule of God. The word aristocracy has in modern times, in French and English, passed into the senses of ‘a ruling body of nobles, the nobles as a ruling class, political power, or upper class’, after which democracy has received the sense of ‘the common people as a political power or element’, and plutocracy that of ‘a class ruling or influential by virtue of its wealth’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < comb. form
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