diarchy

English

Alternative forms

• dinarchy, dyarchy

Etymology

di- +‎ -archy

Noun

diarchy (countable and uncountable, plural diarchies)

1. Rule by two people.

   Djokovic finally cracked the Federer-Nadal diarchy in 2010.

2. A state under the rule of two people; the form of government of such state.

   Swaziland is an absolute diarchy, ruled jointly by a king and a queen mother.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:government

Coordinate terms

• See Thesaurus:government

Derived terms

• diarchal
• diarchic
• diarchical
• Gelasian diarchy

Translations

rule by two people

• Finnish: kaksinvalta

form of government

• Armenian: դիարխիա (diarxia)
• Azerbaijani: diarxiya
• Bulgarian: двувластие (dvuvlastie), диархия f (diarhija)
• Catalan: diarquia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩頭政治／两头政治 (liǎngtóu zhèngzhì)

• Czech: diarchie f
• Danish: diarki n
• Dutch: diarchie n
• Estonian: diarhia
• Finnish: diarkia
• French: dyarchie (fr) f, diarchie (fr) f
• Galician: diarquía (gl) f, diarquia f (reintergrationist)
• Georgian: დიარქია (diarkia)
• German: Diarchie f, Doppelherrschaft f, Biarchie (de) f
• Greek: δυαρχία (el) f (dyarchía)

  Ancient Greek: δυαρχία f (duarkhía)

• Hindi: डायार्की (hi) f (ḍāyārkī)
• Hungarian: diarchia
• Italian: diarchia (it) f
• Korean: 이두 정치(二頭政治) (idu jeongchi)
• Latvian: diarhija f
• Lithuanian: diarchija f
• Malay: diarki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diarki n

• Polish: diarchia (pl) f
• Portuguese: diarquia (pt) f
• Romanian: diarhie f
• Russian: двоевла́стие (ru) n (dvojevlástije), диа́рхия (ru) f (diárxija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двовлашће n, диархија f

  Roman: dvovlašće n, diarhija (sh) f

• Slovak: diarchia f, dvojvládie n
• Slovene: diarhija f
• Spanish: diarquía (es) f
• Swedish: diarki c
• Turkish: diarşi
• Ukrainian: діа́рхія f (diárxija)

References

• “diarchy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dyarchy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• hyracid