oligarchia

Hungarian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin oligarchia (“oligarchy”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía, “rule of the few”), from ὀλίγος (olígos, “few”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler, leader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈoliɡɒrɦijɒ]
• Hyphenation: oli‧gar‧chia

Noun

oligarchia (plural oligarchiák)

1. (politics) oligarchy

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	oligarchia	oligarchiák
accusative	oligarchiát	oligarchiákat
dative	oligarchiának	oligarchiáknak
instrumental	oligarchiával	oligarchiákkal
causal-final	oligarchiáért	oligarchiákért
translative	oligarchiává	oligarchiákká
terminative	oligarchiáig	oligarchiákig
essive-formal	oligarchiaként	oligarchiákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	oligarchiában	oligarchiákban
superessive	oligarchián	oligarchiákon
adessive	oligarchiánál	oligarchiáknál
illative	oligarchiába	oligarchiákba
sublative	oligarchiára	oligarchiákra
allative	oligarchiához	oligarchiákhoz
elative	oligarchiából	oligarchiákból
delative	oligarchiáról	oligarchiákról
ablative	oligarchiától	oligarchiáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	oligarchiáé	oligarchiáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	oligarchiáéi	oligarchiákéi

Possessive forms of oligarchia
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	oligarchiám	oligarchiáim
2nd person sing.	oligarchiád	oligarchiáid
3rd person sing.	oligarchiája	oligarchiái
1st person plural	oligarchiánk	oligarchiáink
2nd person plural	oligarchiátok	oligarchiáitok
3rd person plural	oligarchiájuk	oligarchiáik

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin oligarchia, from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía).
Surface analysis: oligo- (“few”) +‎ -archia (“rule”, “government”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.li.ɡarˈki.a/, [ol̺iɡär̺ˈk̟iːä]
• Hyphenation: o‧li‧gar‧chìa

Noun

oligarchia f (plural oligarchie)

1. (politics) oligarchy

Related terms

• oligarca
• oligarchicamente
• oligarchico

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.liˈɡar.kʰi.a/, [ɔlʲɪˈɡärkʰiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.liˈɡar.ki.a/, [oliˈɡärkiä]

Noun

oligarchia f (genitive oligarchiae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, politics) oligarchy
   • 1313, Dante Alighieri, “Liber I [Book 1]”, in De monarchia [About monarchy]:

     Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.

     Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oligarchia	oligarchiae
Genitive	oligarchiae	oligarchiārum
Dative	oligarchiae	oligarchiīs
Accusative	oligarchiam	oligarchiās
Ablative	oligarchiā	oligarchiīs
Vocative	oligarchia	oligarchiae

Related terms

• oligarcha
• oligarchicus

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Polish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.liˈɡar.xja/

Noun

oligarchia f

1. (politics) oligarchy

Declension

Declension of oligarchia

	singular	plural
nominative	oligarchia	oligarchie
genitive	oligarchii	oligarchii/oligarchij (archaic)
dative	oligarchii	oligarchiom
accusative	oligarchię	oligarchie
instrumental	oligarchią	oligarchiami
locative	oligarchii	oligarchiach
vocative	oligarchio	oligarchie

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Slovak

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔliɡarxia/

Noun

oligarchia f (genitive singular oligarchie, nominative plural oligarchie, genitive plural oligarchií, declension pattern of ulica)

1. oligarchy

Declension

Declension of oligarchia

	singular	plural
nominative	oligarchia	oligarchie
genitive	oligarchie	oligarchií
dative	oligarchii	oligarchiám
accusative	oligarchiu	oligarchie
locative	oligarchii	oligarchiách
instrumental	oligarchiou	oligarchiami

Derived terms

• oligarchický

Further reading

• “oligarchia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024