democratia

Interlingua

Noun

democratia (plural democratias)

1. democracy

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokratíā, “democracy”, “popular government”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.moˈkra.ti.a/, [d̪eːmɔˈkrät̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.moˈkrat.t͡si.a/, [d̪emoˈkrät̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

dēmocratia f (genitive dēmocratiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) democracy

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēmocratia	dēmocratiae
genitive	dēmocratiae	dēmocratiārum
dative	dēmocratiae	dēmocratiīs
accusative	dēmocratiam	dēmocratiās
ablative	dēmocratiā	dēmocratiīs
vocative	dēmocratia	dēmocratiae

Related terms

• dēmos

Descendants

• Middle French: democratie
  • French: démocratie
    • → Danish: demokrati n
    • → Dutch: democratie f, demokratie (before 1996)
      • Afrikaans: demokrasie
      • → Malay: demokrasi

        → Indonesian: démokrasi

      • → Peranakan Indonesian: democratie
    • → German: Demokratie f
    • → Hebrew: דֵּמוֹקְרַטְיָה f
    • → Persian: دموکراسی (demokrâsi)
    • → Romanian: democrație f
    • → Turkish: demokrasi
  • → Norman: démocratie
  • → Czech: demokracie
  • → English: democracy
    • → Amharic: ዴሞክራሲ (demokrasi)
    • → Burmese: ဒီမိုကရေစီ (dimuika.reci)
    • → Chinese: 得莫克拉西 (démòkèlāxī), 德謨克拉西／德谟克拉西 (démókèlāxī)
    • → Malay: demokrasi
    • → S'gaw Karen: ဒံၣ်မိၣ်ခြ့ၣ်စံၣ် (deè moh̀ khraỳ seè)
    • → Swahili: demokrasia
    • → Western Kayah: ꤘꤟꤤ꤬ꤗꤥ꤬ꤊꤚꤢꤩ꤬ꤎꤤ꤬ (dì̤mòkrèsì)
• Italian: democrazia
• Portuguese: democracia
• Sicilian: dimucrazzìa
• Spanish: democracia
• Norwegian Bokmål: demokrati
• Norwegian Nynorsk: demokrati
• Swedish: demokrati

References

• dēmocrătĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “democratia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• democratia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “democratia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin