-crat

See also: crat and C-rat

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “power, might”), modelled after words of Ancient Greek origin such as democrat and aristocrat. From Proto-Indo-European *kret- (English hard).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /-kɹæt/

Suffix

-crat

1. A participant in a specified form of government.
2. An advocate of a specified form of government.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -crat

Participant

• aristocrat
• autocrat
• bureaucrat
• cosmocrat
• gerontocrat
• meritocrat
• monocrat
• plutocrat
• technocrat
• thalassocrat

Advocate

• aristocrat
• autocrat
• bureaucrat
• democrat
• gerontocrat
• meritocrat
• mobocrat
• monocrat
• ochlocrat
• physiocrat
• plutocrat
• technocrat
• theocrat

Related terms

• -cracy
• -cratic

Translations

participant

• Catalan: -crata m or f
• Danish: -krat c
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} -craat (nl)
• Finnish: -kraatti
• French: -crate (fr)
• Galician: -crata m or f
• Georgian: -კრატი (-ḳraṭi)
• German: -krat (de) m, -kratin f
• Greek: -κράτης (el) m (-krátis)
• Hungarian: -krata
• Irish: -laithí m
• Italian: -cratico m, -cratica f
• Persian: سالار (fa) (-sâlâr)
• Portuguese: -crata m or f
• Russian: -крат (-krat)
• Spanish: -crata (es) m or f
• Swedish: -krat (sv) c

advocate

• Catalan: -crata m or f
• Danish: -krat c
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} -craat (nl)
• Finnish: -kraatti
• French: -crate (fr)
• Galician: -crata m or f
• Georgian: -კრატი (-ḳraṭi)
• German: -krat (de) m, -kratin f
• Greek: -κράτης (el) m (-krátis)
• Hungarian: -krata
• Italian: -cratico m, -cratica f
• Portuguese: -crata m or f
• Russian: -крат (-krat)
• Spanish: -crata (es) m or f
• Swedish: -krat (sv) c

Anagrams

• CART, Cart, RACT, cart