demo-

See also: demo, Demo, démo, demó, de mo, and démo-

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δημο- (dēmo-), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

Prefix

demo-

1. people

   e.g. democracy, demolatry, demonym

2. population

   e.g. demogenetics, demography, demology

3. demography

   e.g. demographer, demolinguistic, demoeconomic

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with demo-

demagogue

demarchy

democracy

democrat

democratic

demogenetic

demogenetics

demograph

demographer

demography

demolater

demolatry

demolinguistic

demolinguistics

demology

demonym

demonymy

Philodemician

demophobia

demoscopy

demosophy

Tridemism

terms derived from people

• demagogue
• demarchy
• democracy
• democrat
• democratic
• democratizing
• demogenic
• demolater
• demolatry
• demonym
• demonymy
• demophilic
• demophobic
• demopolitics
• demoscopy
• demosophy
• demotic
• Philodemician
• Tridemism

terms derived from population

• demogenetic
• demogenetics
• demography
• demology

terms derived from demography

• demoeconomic
• demograph
• demographer
• demographics
• demolinguistic
• demolinguistics

Translations

pertaining to people or society

• Afrikaans: demo-
• Albanian: demo-
• Aragonese: demo-
• Armenian: դեմո- (demo-)
• Asturian: demo-
• Azerbaijani: demo-
• Bashkir: демо- (demo-)
• Basque: demo-
• Belarusian: дэма- (dema-)
• Bulgarian: демо- (demo-)
• Buryat: демо- (djemo-)
• Carpathian Rusyn: демо- (demo-)
• Catalan: demo- (ca)
• Chechen: демо- (demo-)
• Chuvash: демо- (demo-)
• Cornish: demo-
• Crimean Tatar: demo-
• Czech: demo-
• Danish: demo-
• Dutch: demo- (nl)
• Esperanto: demo-
• Estonian: demo-
• Finnish: demo-
• French: démo- (fr)
• Galician: demo-
• Georgian: დემო- (demo-)
• German: demo- (de)
• Greek: δημο- (dimo-)

  Ancient Greek: δημο- (dēmo-)

• Greenlandic: demo-
• Hebrew: דֵּמוֹ־ (demo)
• Hungarian: demo-
• Ido: demo-
• Indonesian: demo-
• Interlingua: demo-
• Irish: daon-
• Italian: demo-
• Kalmyk: демо- (demo-)
• Kazakh: демо- (demo-)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: demo- (ku)

• Kyrgyz: демо- (demo-)
• Ladino: demo-
• Latin: dēmo-
• Latvian: demo-
• Ligurian: demo-
• Lithuanian: demo-
• Macedonian: демо- (demo-)
• Malay: demo-
• Maltese: demo-
• Melanau:

  Central Melanau: demo-

• Norman: démo-
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: demo-

  Nynorsk: demo-

• Occitan: demo-
• Polish: demo-
• Portuguese: demo-
• Romanian: demo-

  Cyrillic: демо- (demo-)

• Russian: демо- (demo-)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: demo-

• Scots: demo-
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: демо-

  Latin: demo- (sh)

• Sicilian: dimu- (scn)
• Slovak: demo-
• Slovene: demo-
• Sotho: demo-
• Spanish: demo- (es)
• Sranan Tongo: demo-
• Swahili: demo-
• Swedish: demo- (sv)
• Tagalog: demo-
• Tajik: демо- (demo-)
• Tatar: демо- (demo-)
• Turkish: demo-
• Turkmen: demo-
• Ukrainian: демо- (demo-)
• Uzbek: demo-
• Welsh: demo-
• Yiddish: דעמאָ־ (demo-)

Anagrams

• Dome, E.D. Mo., Edom, Medo-, dome, mode

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δημο- (dēmo-), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [də.mu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [də.mo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [de.mo]

Prefix

demo-

1. demo-

Derived terms

Catalan terms prefixed with demo-

democidi

democràcia

demòcrata

Further reading

• “demo-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δημο- (dēmo-), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

Prefix

demo-

1. demo-

Derived terms

Italian terms prefixed with demo-

democrazia

demodossologia

demoecologia

demofobia

demografia

demografo

demologia

demoplutocrazia

demopsicologia

demoscopia

• democratizzarsi (French)
• democritismo (French)
• demologo (French)
• demoproletario (French)
• demoscopo (French)
• demotismo (French)

Anagrams

• medo, mode

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δημο- (dēmo-), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.mu/

Prefix

demo-

1. demo-

Derived terms

Portuguese terms prefixed with demo-

democracia

demografia

demónimo

Further reading

• “demo-”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “demo-”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δημο- (dēmo-), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

Prefix

demo-

1. demo-

Derived terms

Spanish terms prefixed with demo-

democracia

demografía

demógrafo

demosofía

Further reading

• “demo-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025