δημοκρατία

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[edit] Ancient Greek

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[edit] Etymology

From δῆμος (dēmos, commoner) + κρατέω (krateō, I have power, I rule)

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  • (Classical): IPA: [dɛːmokratíaː]
  • (Koine): IPA: [deːmo̞kratˈiaː]
  • (Byzantine): IPA: [ðimokratˈia]

[edit] Noun

δημοκρατία (genitive δημοκρατίας) f, first declension; (dēmokratia)

  1. democracy, popular government
    • circa 440 BCE: Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus), Historiae, 6.43
      τοὺς γὰρ τυράννους τῶν Ἰώνων καταπαύσας πάντας ὁ Μαρδόνιος δημοκρατίας κατίστα ἐς τὰς πόλιας
      Mardonius put down all the despots throughout Ionia, and in lieu of them established democracies [translation by George Rawlinson, 1910]
    • 46–127 CE: Πλούταρχος (Plutarch), Τῶν ἑπτά σοφῶν συμπόσιον (Banquet of the Seven Sages), 154E
      ὁ Βίας ἔφησε κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν ἐν ᾗ πάντες ὡς τύραννον φοβοῦνται τὸν νόμον
      Bias said that the strongest democracy is that wherein all fear the law as their tyrant

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[edit] Noun

δημοκρατία (dimokratía) f.,   plural δημοκρατίες

  1. democracy
  2. republic

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