-archy

See also: archy and Archy

English

Etymology

From Latin -archia, from Ancient Greek -αρχίᾱ (-arkhíā), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule, government”).

Pronunciation

• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ki/, /ə.ki/
• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɑɹ.ki/, /əɹ.ki/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Suffix

-archy

1. form of government or rule

Synonyms

• -cracy

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -archy

anarchy

anthroparchy

autarchy

biarchy

binarchy

chiliarchy

cryptarchy

decadarchy

decarchy

dekadarchy

demarchy

diarchy

dodecarchy

duarchy

dyarchy

ecclesiarchy

endarchy

eparchy

exarchy

exilarchy

futarchy

gynarchy

hagiarchy

hecatarchy

hecatontarchy

heptarchy

heroarchy

heterarchy

hexarchy

hierarchy

hydrarchy

hyperarchy

iatrarchy

kleptarchy

kritarchy

kyriarchy

lowerarchy

matriarchy

mesarchy

minarchy

monarchy

myriarchy

negarchy

nepotarchy

ochlarchy

octarchy

oligarchy

panarchy

paparchy

parsonarchy

partyarchy

patriarchy

pentarchy

phylarchy

plutarchy

pollarchy

polyarchy

squirearchy

stratarchy

synarchy

tetradarchy

tetrarchy

thearchy

triarchy

Translations

form of government or rule

• Afrikaans: -argie
• Albanian: -arki f
• Arabic: سُلْطَةُ (sulṭatu)
• Armenian: -արխիա (-arxia)
• Asturian: -arquía f
• Azerbaijani: -arxiya
• Basque: -arkia (eu) inan
• Belarusian: -а́рхія f (-árxija)
• Bulgarian: -а́рхия f (-árhija)
• Catalan: -arquia (ca) f
• Corsican: -archia f
• Czech: -archie f
• Danish: -arki c
• Dutch: -archie (nl) f
• Esperanto: -arkio, -arĥio
• Estonian: -arhia (et)
• Finnish: -arkia
• French: -archie (fr) f
• Friulian: -archie f
• Galician: -arquía f
• Georgian: -არქია (-arkia)
• German: -archie (de) f
• Greek: -αρχία (el) f (-archía)

  Ancient Greek: -αρχία f (-arkhía)

• Hebrew: ־ארכיה f (árkhiya)
• Hungarian: -archia
• Ido: -arkio
• Indonesian: -arki
• Interlingua: -archia
• Irish: -arcacht f
• Italian: -archia (it) f
• Kazakh: -архия (-arxıya)
• Khmer: -ធិបតេយ្យ (km) (thɨpteeyyɔɔ)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: -arşî

• Kyrgyz: -архия (-arhiya)
• Lao: -ທິປະໄຕ (thi pa tai)
• Latin: -archia f
• Latvian: -arhija f
• Lithuanian: -arhija f
• Macedonian: -архија f (-arhija)
• Maltese: -arkija f
• Marathi: -शाही f (-śāhī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -arki m

  Nynorsk: -arki m

• Occitan: -arquia f
• Polish: -archia (pl) f
• Portuguese: -arquia (pt) f
• Romanian: -arhie f

  Cyrillic: -архие f (-arhie)

• Russian: -а́рхия f (-árxija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: -архија f

  Latin: -arhija f

• Sicilian: -archìa f
• Slovak: -archia f
• Slovene: -arhija f
• Spanish: -arquía (es) f
• Swedish: -arki (sv) c
• Tagalog: -arkiya
• Tajik: -архия (-arxiya)
• Thai: -ธิปไตย (th)
• Turkish: -arşi
• Turkmen: -arhiýa
• Ukrainian: -а́рхія f (-árxija)
• Uzbek: -arxiya
• Yiddish: ־אַרכיע f (-arkhye)

Anagrams

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