-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 (krắtos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)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

acracy

adhocracy

albocracy

algocracy

Americanocracy

androcracy

argentocracy

aristocracy

arithmocracy

atheocracy

athletocracy

autocracy

barbarocracy

blobocracy

boobocracy

bureaucracy

chirocracy

chrysocracy

cleptocracy

clericocracy

clerocracy

corpocracy

corporatocracy

corruptocracy

cosmocracy

cottonocracy

critocracy

cryptocracy

cyberocracy

czarocracy

demagocracy

demagogracy

democracy

demoicracy

demonocracy

despotocracy

dollarocracy

dumbocracy

ecclesiocracy

ecocracy

economocracy

elitocracy

ephebocracy

ergatocracy

ethnocracy

expertocracy

familiocracy

foolocracy

forestocracy

Geniocracy

geniocracy

gerontocracy

gynecocracy

gynocracy

hagiocracy

hetaerocracy

heterocracy

hierocracy

holacracy

ideocracy

idiocracy

ineptocracy

infantocracy

infocracy

inheritocracy

isocracy

Jewocracy

Judeocracy

juntocracy

juvenocracy

kakistocracy

kakocracy

kleptocracy

kratocracy

lairdocracy

landocracy

logocracy

lootocracy

lotacracy

lottocracy

mageocracy

magocracy

mausolocracy

mediacracy

mediocracy

meritocracy

merocracy

mesocracy

militocracy

millionocracy

millocracy

mobocracy

moneyocracy

monocracy

moronocracy

mortocracy

mullahcracy

narcocracy

narcokleptocracy

necrocracy

neocracy

nomocracy

noocracy

ochlocracy

-ocracy

oilocracy

oligocracy

paedocracy

panocracy

pantocracy

papyrocracy

partocracy

pathocracy

pedophocracy

penisocracy

personocracy

phallocracy

pharmacracy

philosophocracy

phobocracy

physiocracy

pigmentocracy

plantocracy

plutocracy

pneumatocracy

politocracy

polycracy

polyocracy

pornocracy

poshocracy

proctocracy

prophetocracy

psephocracy

quangocracy

radiocracy

robocracy

robotocracy

scientocracy

securocracy

shopocracy

slavocracy

snobocracy

sociocracy

sophocracy

spendocracy

statocracy

stratocracy

synocracy

taxocracy

technocracy

teleocracy

tellurocracy

thalassocracy

thalattocracy

thanatocracy

theocracy

thugocracy

timocracy

tycoonocracy

vaginocracy

vetocracy

videocracy

webocracy

xenocracy

xerocracy

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 (et)
• 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)
• Hindi: -तंत्र (-tantra)
• Hungarian: -krácia, -uralom (hu)
• Ido: -kratio
• Indonesian: -krasi
• Interlingua: -cratia
• Irish: -lathas m
• Italian: -crazia (it) f
• Kazakh: -кратия (-kratiä)
• 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)