-cracy

See also: Category:English terms suffixed with -ocracy

English

Alternative forms

• -ocracy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek -κρατία (-kratía), from κράτος (krátos, “power”).

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kret-

Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krátos)

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-kratíā)bor.

English -cracy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-kɹəsi/

Suffix

-cracy

1. rule (in the sense of governing).

Usage notes

• Contrast -cracy with the far rarer, homophonous -crasy.

Synonyms

• -archy

Derived terms

• See Appendix:Forms of government

English terms suffixed with -cracy

Related terms

• -crat
• -cratic

Translations

rule

• Afrikaans: -krasie
• Albanian: -kraci f
• Aragonese: -cracia f
• Armenian: -կրատիա (-kratia)
• Asturian: -cracia f
• Azerbaijani: -kratiya
• Bashkir: -кратия (-kratiya)
• Basque: -krazia (eu) inan
• Belarusian: -кра́тыя f (-krátyja)
• Bulgarian: -кра́ция f (-krácija)
• Catalan: -cràcia (ca) f
• Chuvash: -крати (-krat̬i)
• Crimean Tatar: -kratiya
• Czech: -kracie f
• Danish: -krati (da) n
• Dutch: -cratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: -kratio
• Estonian: -kraatia
• Finnish: -kratia (fi)
• French: -cratie (fr) f
• Galician: -cracia f
• Georgian: -კრატია (-ḳraṭia)
• German: -kratie (de) f
• Greek: -κρατία (el) f (-kratía)

  Ancient: -κρατία f (-kratía)

• Haitian Creole: -krasi
• Hebrew: ־קְרַטְיָה f (krátya)
• Hungarian: -krácia, -uralom (hu)
• Ido: -kratio
• Indonesian: -krasi
• Interlingua: -cratia
• Irish: -lathas m
• Italian: -crazia (it) f
• Kazakh: -кратия (-kratiä)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: -krasî

• Kyrgyz: -кратия (-kratiya)
• Lao: -ທິປະໄຕ (-thi pa tai)
• Latvian: -krātija f
• Ligurian: -craçîa f
• Lithuanian: -kratija f
• Macedonian: -кра́тија f (-krátija)
• Malay: -krasi
• Maltese: -krazija f
• Norman: -cratie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -krati n

  Nynorsk: -krati n

• Occitan: -cracia f
• Persian: سالاری (fa) (-sâlâri)
• Polish: -kracja f
• Portuguese: -cracia (pt) f
• Romanian: -crație f

  Cyrillic: -крацие f (-crație)

• Russian: -кра́тия f (-krátija)
• Sanskrit: -तन्त्र (-tantra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: -кратија f (Bosnia, Serbia), -крација f (Croatia)

  Roman: -kratija f (Bosnia, Serbia), -kracija f (Croatia)

• Sicilian: -crazzìa f
• Slovak: -kracia f
• Slovene: -kracija f
• Sotho: -krasi
• Spanish: -cracia (es) f
• Swedish: -krati (sv) c
• Tagalog: -krasya
• Tajik: -кратия (-kratiya)
• Thai: -ธิปไตย (th)
• Turkish: -krasi
• Turkmen: -kratiýa, -kratsiýa
• Ukrainian: -кра́тія f (-krátija)
• Uzbek: -kratiya
• Yiddish: ־קראַציע f (-kratsye)